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If the question is how long do we have to use AI to become lazy, the answer is: a sigh

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Ten minutes. It is the time it takes for AI to have a negative effect on our ability to reason and solve problems, or at least that is what they have concluded in a new study in which they have measured how the use of AI assistants not only improves immediate performance, but also reduces persistence and worsens performance when we do not have access to AI. The study. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, UCLA, and Oxford have published a randomized, controlled experiment that measures the impact of using AI on the ability to solve problems independently. In total, more than 1,200 people participated in three different experiments. The researchers’ conclusion goes in the direction of what we have seen in other previous studies: using AI enhances our productivity, but It has a cognitive cost. The experiment. A first experiment was carried out with 354 participants in which they had to solve twelve simple fractions. Some of the participants had a side panel with an AI assistant (GPT 5) that they could use to solve the operations. The curious thing came when their access to the chatbot was removed and they had to answer three more questions without the help of the AI. The result was that people who had used AI made more mistakes in their answers than the control group. The gray part of the graph was when the AI ​​assistant was retired. Fountain: AI Project Confirming results. The researchers did a second experiment in which they duplicated the participants (667) and did a pretest to measure the level. In addition, they added a “placebo” side panel (without AI) to the control group participants, so that there were no interface differences. The results again showed that people who used AI failed more than the control group. There was a third experiment in which reading comprehension problems were asked with 201 participants and the same thing happened again: when AI was removed, that group performed the worst. The key nuance. There is an important detail of the study and that is that they measured how the participants used AI. 61% used it to give them answers directly, while others used it to give them clues or clarifications. The results of this second group were more similar to those of the control group. On the other hand, those who asked for AI solutions as they were failed much more when it was withdrawn. This suggests what we have said above: the negative effect of AI on our cognition. It depends largely on how we use it. Copying answers without questioning is not the same as using them as support in the cognitive process. The new silly box. The fear that technology makes us stupid is not something that has arisen with AI, it happened with the calculator, it has happened with television, with video games and it is happening with cell phones. Although there are studies that point in that direction, there is no clear evidence that technology damages our cognition. However, it is also true that until now we had not had access to technology to which we could delegate all our thinking. Cover image | Xataka In Xataka | Young programmers no longer know how to program: AI is now causing the same thing that the calculator did half a century ago

The good news is that we have an anticyclone about Spain. The bad is that stability will last a sigh

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All those who thought that the rains of March were A kind of Vogone curseit seems they were right. In fact, I don’t know if it is worth continuing to call them “March rains” because, despite appearances, the rain has not left anywhere. I was taking a breath. But we have a dorsal on top! It’s true. These days, it has entered A gigantic anticyclonic dorsal of subtropical origin that is not only very warm and very stable, but will cross the Peninsula and will continue to the north until it almost arrives in Iceland. And we will notice. Because, As Aemet already pointed out In his forecast for this week is that “it will be warmer than normal throughout the country, especially in the peninsular northwest.” However, it is not a normal dorsal. As Ángel Rivero explainedthis dorsal has a characteristic “finger” form (it is very elongated, but very narrow). That exposes the Peninsula below Danas and Borrascas Frías, both for the East and West. The problem is that this type of structures (very rare before, but from 2020 more and more frequent) are characterized by An extremely winding polar jet With air bags, ripping continuously. And, as we know, those airbags have a very erratic behavior: they are very difficult to pursue. And the first example comes Wednesday. The European model draws two cold storms one between the Canary Islands and the Azores (Olivier) and the other in the Gulf of Lion. As Collect Sergio Escaama in Meteoredboth storms go to Cerner on the Peninsula and will cause rains both in the northeast and in the southwest. If the scenarios are right, both storms would merge into a About the Gulf of Cádiz creating a fairly complex situation. Although we cannot determine the intensity and the trajectory, we do know that we must monitor it closely. From the middle of the week, we can expect rains in many areas of the country. And in Holy Week? As we are experiencing in our own flesh, the country’s meteorological context is complex. We are living a spring full of thermal ups and downs and huge rains. Thus, it is difficult to know what is going to What yes We can discard it is a persistent scenario of stability. If it does not rain on the key days of next week it will be by chance and not because it must necessarily be so. As I explainedduring the next few days we will have to be aware of the Azores anticyclone. Because if as it seems, zonal circulation is restored, everything will depend on whether the anticyclone lets go storms or not. Image | WXCHARTS In Xataka | Someone has left the water key open: the rain is back and the models say it will not leave until after Holy Week

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