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S1E57: How Gen AI like ChatGPT enhances critical thinking, instead of making us lazy
We even invite ChatGPT to be a 'guest' in this episode with our host and two human guests.
Synopsis: Every second Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times takes a hard look at Singapore's social issues of the day with guests.
Preliminary findings from a recent MIT study in June in the US, concluded that people using just generative AI (Gen AI) tools such as ChatGPT, became lazier with each subsequent essay they wrote.
The study, conducted in Boston, categorised three groups of test subjects aged 18 to 39 according to the tools that they used: ChatGPT, Google or no tools.
The brain activity…
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