I am sharing a thoughtful article today from Alex Panetta’s A.I. For You on avoiding over-reliance on AI: “cognitive debt”, “epistemic debt”, or “cognitive surrender”.
A particularly interesting nugget regarding the “Your Brain on ChatGPT” article from the MIT Media Lab (yes, that MIT Media Lab):
The paper is even written to get LLMs to read it carefully. The paper carries instructions telling LLMs which section to read first, which appears to be a clever way to force relevant context atop the context window, as LLMs tend to best remember the beginning and end of conversations — not the middle.