According to an MIT study, the use of ChatGPT may have consequences on brain function.
Impact of AI on Brain Function: A Study at MIT Media Lab
ChatGPT boasts 800 million weekly users globally, doubling in just four months. But what impact does this artificial intelligence (AI) have on our brain function? Neurotechnology specialists at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, suggest there are indeed consequences.
Led by French researcher Nataliya Kosmyna, the team conducted a novel study involving fifty-four volunteers aged 18 to 39 from about ten different countries. Equipped with helmets that monitored their brain activity – specifically, the flow of information circulating in different brain regions, observed using the Dynamic Direct Transfer Function, a more comprehensive measure than a standard electroencephalogram – these students and postdoctoral researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Wellesley universities, all located in the Boston area, were tasked with writing essays, both with and without the assistance of ChatGPT, and then recalling their writing. Four months later, the eighteen participants who agreed to return repeated the experiment, reversing their roles. Those previously aided by AI no longer received assistance, and vice versa.
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