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Isle 5 AI Clean Up
GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg
Just had a fascinating lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though.
He kept pausing mid-sentence, searching for words. Not complex words – basic ones. Like his brain was buffering.
Finally asked if he was okay. His response floored me.
“Sometimes I forget words now. I’m so used to having ChatGPT complete my thoughts that when it’s not there, my brain feels… slower.”
He’d been using AI for everything. Writing, thinking, communication. It had become his external brain. And now his internal one was getting weaker.
Made me think about calculators. Remember how teachers said we needed to learn math because “you won’t always have a calculator”? They were wrong about that.
But maybe they were right about something deeper.
We’re running the first large-scale experiment on human cognition. What happens when an entire generation outsources their thinking?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m beyond excited about what AI and AI agents will do for people in the same way that I was excited in 2009 when the App Store was launched.
But thinking out loud you got to think this guy I met with isn’t the onnnnnly one that’s going to be completely dependent on AI.
Mike Ashcroft @bigmisterash
This reminds me of the story of London cab drivers brains’ having larger than average sized Hippocampi due to them being required to memorise the streets & routes to do their jobs without relying on external aids.
Outsourcing our navigation was the first taste of this. Many people can’t drive anywhere now without it.
Researchers used AI to generate 288 complete academic finance papers predicting stock returns, complete with plausible theoretical frameworks & citations. Each paper looks legit. They did this to show how easy it now is to mass produce “credible” research. Academia isn’t ready.

Ilya sutskever gave a TED talk yesterday after a long time. He explains how ‘pre-training as we know it will end’ Another important point he discusses: Reasoning will lead to “incredibly unpredictable” behavior, and self-awareness will emerge in AI systems.
https://x.com/slow_developer/status/1868317360568123680/video/1
Still amazes me that people could once churn out pages of coherent paragraphs on a typewriter with only a backspace key and whiteout for editing.
New workplace dystopia just dropped.
AI monitoring software now flags you if you type slower than coworkers, take >30sec breaks, or checks notes have a consistent Mon-Thu but slightly different Friday. Bonus: It’s collecting your workflow data to help automate your job away.
ChatGPT’s AI Search Tool Is Now Available
OpenAI just launched its newest artificial intelligence search experience for ChatGPT. Here’s how to get the AI search update, and WIRED’s initial impressions.
Karen Piper
There are two things Elon Musk cares about lately. Neither is Mars.
1. He wants to strangle his competition in AI because he knows he can control the world with it. (This is scary.) OpenAI is ahead of him, so he’s trying to destroy them.
2. He wants to eliminate regulations so he can do whatever he wants. For him, it’s all about world domination.
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