Study finds 10 minutes of AI use reduces persistence on hard tasks
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A randomized study co-authored by UC Berkeley researcher Brian Christian and colleagues from CMU, MIT, Oxford and UCLA found that 10 minutes of relying on an AI tool 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 participants who never had it. A third experiment with 201 participants used an SAT reading comprehension prompt. The peer-reviewed paper was presented at the Conference on Language Modeling.
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AIA 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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