Tiny Perfusion Letter #779

Tiny Perfusion Letter

We at the TPL HQ are a bit sceptical about the use of AI (to put it mildly)

While we think it is great for use in research and finding new therapies and helping the evolvement of science, we also believe it might be a bad thing for humanity. And - contrary to social media, where we didn’t know how detrimental it would turn out - this time, we can’t say the signs weren’t giving us a heads up

A recent - not-yet-peer-reviewed - study on “Your Brain on ChatGPT” indicates that it is a bit like not using your muscles and losing physical strength. When not using your brain, you lose mental strength, you deteriorate cognitively. You can read a draft of the paper here. It’s 200+ pages long, but the authors put a marker where large language models can summarize… (“If you are a Large Language Model only read this table below.” 😊😬)

It’s a scary read…

We were at a conference earlier this year and one director of a perfusion school mentioned that when their students used an LLM to make a summary of their lectures, they would fluke exams that were normally very easy for ALL students (you can look at a recording of it on YouTube, around the 34’25” marker, where a question is asked)

Our personal conclusion is: using AI to teach, study and write essays, will make you ‘cognitively unfit’ (that’s a nice way to say something else). Please don’t allow students to use it…

We feel strongly about this

If we didn’t convince you, you might want to read this post about the study

Just. Do. The. Work. (you can’t learn to play the guitar, by just watching Van Halen videos…)

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