TRC #712: AI Make Brain Dumb? + Mentalism

A robot mentalist does a book test on a human who's dumb because he uses too many LLMsIs AI making us dumber? Darren looks into a recent study, which spawned some less than great press coverage, trying to assess where or not using LLMs is making us less intelligent. We didn’t really come to very good conclusions because we’ve been using too much AI. Adam gives an overview of mentalism, inspired by some recent podcast appearances by Oz Pearlman which have gone viral and brought some mainstream attention to this practice.

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Does AI make us dumb?

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Mentalism

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