Ten minutes with an AI tool impairs persistence on hard tasks, study finds
Original titleUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
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A randomized study co-authored by UC Berkeley researcher Brian Christian found that 10 minutes of relying on an AI tool significantly impairs people's focus and persistence on difficult tasks.
In experiments with 1,222 online participants, ChatGPT users who lost access to the tool after 12 fraction problems became less accurate and skipped more questions than those who never had it.
The peer-reviewed paper was presented at the Conference on Language Modeling.
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