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A neuroscientist predicted 15 years ago that GPS would cause early-onset dementia. The data now agrees with her — and she says ChatGPT is doing the same thing to your brain, but faster.
If she's right, the way you use AI in the next two years could determine whether you get sharper or slowly outsource your thinking.
She has a 122-million-person dataset on what predicts human performance — and her finding upends how most of us are using AI right now.
We cover: why GPS is making people cognitively weaker, why ChatGPT is "the new GPS but worse," the Indian weavers and what AI gets wrong about progress, how to use Google Maps without losing your brain, and the one design principle every AI product should follow.
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00:00 The prediction nobody wanted to hear
00:25 The data that proves she was right
01:10 GPT is the new GPS
03:30 The Indian weavers and what AI gets wrong about progress
05:00 How to use Google Maps without losing your brain
07:00 Augment, don't automate
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A neuroscientist predicted 15 years ago that GPS would cause early-onset dementia. The data now agrees with her — and she says ChatGPT is doing the same thing to your brain, but faster.
If she's right, the way you use AI in the next two years could determine whether you get sharper or slowly outsource your thinking.
She has a 122-million-person dataset on what predicts human performance — and her finding upends how most of us are using AI right now.
We cover: why GPS is making people cognitively weaker, why ChatGPT is "the new GPS but worse," the Indian weavers and what AI gets wrong about progress, how to use Google Maps without losing your brain, and the one design principle every AI product should follow.
Watch the full video youtu.be/rVkZmdcpSdE
00:00 The prediction nobody wanted to hear
00:25 The data that proves she was right
01:10 GPT is the new GPS
03:30 The Indian weavers and what AI gets wrong about progress
05:00 How to use Google Maps without losing your brain
07:00 Augment, don't automate
———
📬 Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: briankeating.com/yt
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Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): amzn.to/2sa5UpA
Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu
Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U
Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un
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#intotheimpossible #briankeating #science #ai #chatgpt #cognition #neuroscience
