Your Brain on ChatGPT with Nataliya Kosmyna

I really enjoyed this podcast. The idea that stayed with me most was cognitive debt: the possibility that by outsourcing parts of our thinking to AI, we gain convenience in the short term but may lose something in the process.

One finding that made me pause was that people using ChatGPT (or other LLMs) often felt less ownership over what they had written and struggled to remember it afterwards. I can totally relate to this. It made me think about and appreciate that the value of writing is sometimes less about the final output and more about the thinking that happens along the way. I also couldn't help but think about how these technologies might impact my daughter as she grows up. All of us learned to read, write and think before AI was available. What happens when these technologies are part of the process from the very beginning? Who is thinking about this very important question: how do we navigate using these models while still educating young children (and adults for that matter) to use their brains?

Nataliya gives a few tips to help with the urge of always turning to LLMs (and avoid over reliance on them) which I will try and think about next time I open Chat:

1. Do I actually needs to use chatGPT to write this email?

2. How did I do it 3 years ago?

3. Is it really worth 1 gallon of water and 7 trees (cost to the planet)? (!!)

   
   

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-brain-on-chatgpt-with-nataliya-kosmyna/id1721516836?i=1000723136665