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Allow me to clarify, discussions and handwringing about brain-rot are in vogue. As I will soon show you, there is a whole lot of active and quite boisterous chatter about the impacts of social media on our brains, especially those of the younger generations, for which the dire exhortation is made that the flotsam of online Internet-fed videos and podcasts are turning all our minds into utter mush.
If you haven’t yet considered that facet, I’m proud to say that you are now about to get quite a telling about whether or not generative AI is going to cause massive large-scale widespread brain-rot.For my ongoing readers, in today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about the impact of generative AI in the health and medical realm.
Do not despair. Most speculations about brain-rot suggest that if you catch yourself before the rot has done its worst efforts, you can at least remain at a stalemate. Furthermore, you can thankfully undertake remedial action to overcome the brain rot that has occurred. There is hope. You can likely lift yourself out of the brain-rot abyss, though it is going to undoubtedly take concerted attention and hard work. Sorry, nothing in life is easy, including turning around brain-rot.
We can debate whether that transpired, though it seems evident that wholescale brain-rot did not seem to happen . It isn’t brand new. It isn’t a shocker. Only those who for whatever reason haven’t heard or seen it before might falsely think it is some clever new saying. That being said, certainly the interpretations and various ways of employing brain-rot as a descriptor have morphed to some degree.
“Recently, new games such as ‘Brain Training’ for the Nintendo DS have begun to counter the idea that games are pureAround that same time, the belief was voiced that people could explicitly perform mental gymnastics to hopefully stop the scourge of brain rot:, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia.” .In a sense, of course, though we should be cautious in crying wolf about what drives or leads to brain rot. It is easy-peasy to refer to just about anything you want as causing brain rot.
“One brain rot behavior is doomscrolling, which involves long periods of searching for negative and distressing news online.” The customary means of achieving modern generative AI involves using a large language model or LLM as the key underpinning. . Generative AI destroys or at least mortally weakens your mind and prevents you from ever regaining your mental senses.
This first instance is somewhat like the raised concerns about social media causing brain rot, or for that matter the olden days when TV was supposed to cause brain rot. The notion here is that you cede the control of your mind over to generative AI. No need to think on your own. Any issues in life or questions that you have can all be sufficiently addressed by generative AI.
. Generative AI destroys or at least mortally weakens your mind and prevents you from ever regaining your mental senses. Please don’t give up hope and also don’t run around declaring that we must ban generative AI , see my analysis at. At the same time, AI can be used for bad purposes. Evildoers can find ways to make the world less safe and carry out their devious plots by leveraging the same AI that can be used for goodness instead.The context here is that we have been concentrating on the dual-use downside when it comes to prodding along brain-rot. You could readily insist this is an unfair one-sided viewpoint.
On the other side of the coin is the use of generative AI for valid educational purposes. Generative AI can be a customized tutor that will hone the learning process to the specific needs of the student at hand. The AI won’t get tired, won’t get upset, and otherwise will seamlessly perform tutoring duties. I’ve covered those upsides extensively, see
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