Amongst key findings of the study is faster growth in non-work-related ChatGPT usage than in work-related usage. The demographic breakdown of ChatGPT users was also found to have shifted, with the ...

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Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have published a new study measuring what happens inside the brain when people use ChatGPT to write essays, and the results point to a worrying pattern: the AI tool ...

As someone who writes about the AI industry relatively frequently for this site, there is one question that I find myself constantly asking and being asked in turn, in some form or another: What do ...

A recent study by the Media Lab at MIT found that prolonged use of ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) chatbot, can have a harmful impact on the cognitive abilities of its users. Over four months, ...

Large language models largely remain black boxes in terms of what is happening inside them to produce the outputs that they do. They have also been a bit of a black box in terms of who is using them ...

OpenAI has released what it says is the largest report on ChatGPT use yet. It offers new insights into who's using the popular AI chatbot — and what they're using it for. The 64-page study, conducted ...

Seeking information rose to 24% of ChatGPT usage, suggesting overlap with search-type queries. Writing is the top work use case. Non-work usage surpassed 70%. An OpenAI and Harvard study finds that 24 ...

ChatGPT Study Mode provides students with a Socratic interface and experience designed to foster active learning and idea exploration rather than just passively receiving answers. Traditional student ...

This story was updated to specify the name of the journal in which the case study was published. A man was hospitalized for weeks and suffered from hallucinations after poisoning himself based on ...

For the first time since ChatGPT’s debut in 2022, a large trove of its user data has been made available to researchers, who attempted to answer a straightforward — but contentious and heavily ...