Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents(vice.com)
35 points by Alifatisk | 31 comments
Vice article reporting a neuroscientist's claim that Gen Z is the first generation to score lower cognitively than their parents.
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Show HN: Grimoire for Biology(grimoire.bio)
9 points by levmiseri | 2 comments
Grimoire.bio is a web app where users ask biology questions and browse 3D-rendered bio objects, concepts, and guides.
Back to School, in Gaza(newyorker.com)
8 points by hebelehubele | 2 comments
New Yorker essay by Mosab Abu Toha describing children in Gaza returning to school in tents amid bombed-out buildings, without chairs or desks.
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things(vcresearch.berkeley.edu)
25 points by giuliomagnifico | 23 comments
UC Berkeley Research news article on a co-authored study finding that using AI for just 10 minutes reduces people's persistence on difficult tasks.
What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit(lesswrong.com)
21 points by joozio | 11 comments
A LessWrong linkpost by Katalina Hernandez reflecting on lessons from co-leading an AI safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners.
The death of web development education(molily.de)
175 points by ibobev | 130 comments
Blog post by molily arguing that web development education is disappearing as a viable field and discussing how to rescue it, prompted by Baldur Bjarnason's post.
ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability(github.com)
64 points by pykello | 8 comments
GitHub repository for ExplainDB, an AGPL-licensed educational database system designed for understandability, with notebooks and tutorials.
AI by Hand(byhand.ai)
336 points by sans_souse | 25 comments
AI by Hand is a site teaching AI and deep learning concepts through hand-worked math exercises; the captured page was blank.
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics(laurentiugabriel.github.io)
763 points by laurentiurad | 489 comments
Personal blog post by Laurentiu Raducu describing how he uses LLMs to learn complex topics, including building an interactive chip-making game called ChipTycoon.
Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence(businessinsider.com)
529 points by signa11 | 451 comments
Business Insider article on Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak being cheered at a graduation speech for telling students they all have 'actual intelligence'.
Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant(media.mit.edu)
658 points by misswaterfairy | 463 comments
MIT Media Lab publication page for a study on how using ChatGPT for essay writing affects brain activity and leads to accumulated cognitive debt.
Space Elevator(neal.fun)
1665 points by kaonwarb | 379 comments
Neal.fun interactive page where users scroll upward in an elevator through the atmosphere into space, seeing objects and phenomena at each altitude.
MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)
438 points by cainxinth | 432 comments
Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.
AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser(elroy.bot)
325 points by jjfoooo4 | 183 comments
Blog post on the Elroy site arguing AI reshapes learning curves by helping beginners reach competence faster, while mastery and large-codebase work remain hard.
I'd rather read the prompt(claytonwramsey.com)
1282 points by claytonwramsey | 766 comments
Blog post by Clayton Ramsey arguing that LLM-generated student answers are verbose and empty, and that he would rather read the prompt that produced them.
I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt(huffpost.com)
438 points by dredmorbius | 551 comments
A HuffPost Personal essay by DJ Bracken about deciding to pay off a school's student lunch debt and what happened afterward.
Internet in a Box(internet-in-a-box.org)
846 points by homebrewer | 215 comments
Homepage of Internet in a Box, a project providing offline access to free knowledge resources like Wikipedia, featuring a video on bridging the digital divide in Latin America.
Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)(punkx.org)
372 points by throwaway71271 | 41 comments
Project page for Overflow, a tabletop and web board game where players write RISC-V assembly and exploit buffer overflows to hack opponents.
Teaching with AI(openai.com)
405 points by todsacerdoti | 283 comments
OpenAI blog post announcing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in classrooms, with suggested prompts, limitations, AI detector efficacy, and bias.
OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy(decrypt.co)
441 points by cbowal | 246 comments
Decrypt news article reporting that OpenAI quietly shut down its AI Classifier text-detection tool because of poor accuracy.