A short YouTube commentary by Paul Barnhurst arguing that "lazy prompting"—using AI to generate finished work without engaging—harms learning and may reduce brain activity (speaker cites an MIT study claiming declining brain waves in heavy prompt-users). The speaker contrasts this with constructive uses: using AI to generate ideas, learn a topic, and iteratively refine one’s own essay by treating the AI as a partner.
If you're a university student and you're using an AI tool to be lazy to do an essay for you, you need to write an essay on a novel, let's say the Great Gatsby and you just put in a prompt and say generate an essay and you don't read it and you hand it in. You don't know much. In fact, recent studies including one from MIT showed that brain activity is declining, literally brain waves are declining of people who spent the past year doing nothing but prompting from AI, not thinking @ all. I think the same will be from Excel work and modeling but those who use it. If you have to build a Great Gatsby essay and you use it to help you generate ideas and you use it to help you learn the topic and use it to refine your own essay and you use it as a person, a partner to bounce back and forth, I think that'll make you better.
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