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Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says
Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.
Some do suggest that the Internet and digital technologies impair or otherwise alter performance on specific learning and memory tasks: people who use GPS devices to navigate seem worse at recalling routes, for instance. Large language models (LLMs) that power tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly being incorporated into search engines and other software, which means they are becoming part of everyday experiences for most people. But the idea that the Internet is eroding human memory gained ground after a 2011 study 2 by psychologist Betsy Sparrow, who was then at Columbia University in New York City, and others.
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