Humanity suffers from AI disease "brain outsourcing" severely worsening! iKala founder warns: seeking convenience destroys originality.

Brain outsourcing is beginning to spread among people who use AI heavily, experts say it's extremely dangerous. How does AI change human reading habits? Will the original text eventually disappear? (Background supplement: Professor Berkeley warns: Graduates of prestigious schools do not have to pick jobs!) AI will cut off half of the grassroots positions in another 5 years) Technology has always come from inertia, please honestly feel that you who use AI every day to work, write, and even create, have you become a member of "brain outsourcing"? Maybe you don't understand what brain outsourcing is, unlike the habit of "memory externalization" that has been cultivated by using search engines such as Google for decades, brain outsourcing is a structural destruction of people's original ability and ideas, and people's minds are more shifted towards mechanical goals, rather than planning and execution. Experts warn Sega, founder of iKala, a well-known domestic AI company, wrote a Facebook post a few days ago, which was quite shocking to read, and was authorized to do the following: Brain outsourcing (brain outsourcing) fully launched Although I have mentioned this incident in the book for a long time, it is quite surprising to see the real scientific research results come out, and I am quite surprised by the seriousness of this matter. When we enter instructions in a dialog box and ask ChatGPT to draft an email, write a report, or even come up with an idea, are we aiding thinking or unconsciously engaging in a massive "brain outsourcing"? MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) gave us scientific evidence last week, although the results of the study may have been expected by most people, and it is not surprising. The researchers took 54 participants, put them on electroencephalogram (EEG) devices, and asked them to complete multiple articles over a four-month period. They are divided into three groups: ChatGPT group: Use ChatGPT to assist writing. Google search groups: Only traditional search engines can be used. Pure brain group: think and write only by your own brain. As a result, users who have long relied on ChatGPT have significantly reduced brain connectivity. When they were asked to write independently of AI, the patterns of activity in their brains looked more like new writers than experienced authors. This is a direct consequence of brain outsourcing: you completely delegate the cognitive responsibility of constructing arguments and organizing words to AI, like hiring a substitute driver and forgetting how to drive. Even more troubling is the phenomenon of "cognitive amnesia": a whopping 83% of ChatGPT users can't even accurately quote sentences written by themselves (with the help of AI) a few minutes ago. Because the process of thinking and organizing is outsourced, we become "porters" of information rather than "internalizers" of knowledge. In contrast, only 11% of the "pure brain" group experienced the same difficulties. That's a huge gap: 83% vs 11%. Researchers call this consequence "cognitive debt": you trade your future cognitive abilities for immediate convenience. Just as GPS creates a large group of road nerds, over-reliance on GPS will weaken our built-in sense of space and ability to recognize roads. Now, ChatGPT has raised the level of outsourcing from "direction" to "thinking" itself. This is very worrying, after all, the "ability to think" is the key to our self-esteemed spirit of all things. This scientific discovery actually coincides with many ancient wisdoms (science often helps to verify ancient wisdom). Before the advent of computers, many cultures warned us of the dangers of taking shortcuts, especially the Japanese philosophy: "Breaking the Ground" is a three-stage theory of learning derived from traditional arts such as martial arts and tea ceremony, which perfectly interprets the challenges of the AI era. Keeping: protecting, complying. The apprentice must fully imitate and faithfully follow the Master's teachings and all the basic skills, without allowing for personal interpretation, with the goal of internalizing the basics into instincts. Break: break, break. Having become fully proficient in the basics, apprentices begin to try to question tradition and seek a way that suits them better. Detachment: detachment, transcendence. Eventually, learners completely transcend their original form and forge their own new path. Directly using AI to generate content is like an apprentice who has not even experienced the stage of "keeping", but wants to directly enter the realm of "breaking" and "leaving". The results may seem gorgeous, but in fact the foundation is unstable. Similarly, Japan's "craftsmanship" celebrates the ultimate in a craft, and it is the embodiment of this spirit that sushi chefs' apprentices spend years just to learn how to cook rice. True excellence comes from tirelessly refining the foundation. This cultural wisdom of "no shortcuts" is not just philosophical talk, it is rooted in the scientific principles of how the brain works. The first is the (neuroplasticity) of neuroplasticity, that is, the characteristics of the brain "in and out". When we think hard and solve problems, the relevant neural connections are reinforced. Conversely, outsourcing these tasks for a long time weakens connectivity. Taking shortcuts will cost you later. If you take shortcuts in thinking, the price you pay is that the neural connections in the brain will be poorer in the future, and the brain will become more and more difficult. And the best way to strengthen brain connectivity comes from deliberate practice of (deliberate practice) (desirable difficulty) necessary difficulty. Our brains learn best and have the deepest long-term memories when faced with challenging challenges that are beyond their comfort zone. The seamless convenience provided by AI deprives us of the opportunity to experience this "beneficial difficulty", allowing knowledge to float on the surface and prevent it from taking root. So, how do we coexist with AI? The answer is definitely not to disable, but to use wisely. Another key finding of the MIT study was a glimmer of light: Participants who independently completed the first draft and then retouched and edited it with ChatGPT tended to have increased brain connectivity. So the whole conclusion is clear: first use your own brain to complete the cognitive burden (keeping), and then use AI as a reinforcement tool in order to break through (break, leave). This conclusion is crucial for the next generation of children and newbies in all fields. We should think of AI as a "collaborator" with endless potential, not a "replacement" that can be outsourced thinking, and we don't want to leave all the tasks to AI to solve. Only in this way can we enjoy the dividends of science and technology while avoiding the "cognitive debt" that cannot be repaid, ensuring that we are still real people who can think independently, so as not to outsource our brains at the beginning. Don't give up thinking in the first place. The seriousness of brain outsourcing To use a medical term that is not really a medical term "cognitive laziness syndrome" to describe the brain outsourcing, when cognitive tasks become too easy, the brain will reduce investment, which in turn weakens the activity of neural networks, and eventually causes substantial degradation of cognitive function. For example, if there is no rehabilitation, the areas of the brain that cannot be used will simply be sealed. Or to use an extreme metaphor: can you still walk in a wheelchair for a year? In the past two years, behavioral scholars have also begun to pay attention to the study of human neuroplasticity because of the prevalence of AI, and every time people choose to let AI use their brains for us, it is actually an opportunity to learn and strengthen...