ChatGPT became his external brain

It's happening. OW! MY BALLS! Just had a fascinating lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something fell out 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.

На скриншоте поста рассказывается о выпускнике Стэнфорда, который после активного использования ChatGPT начал забывать простые слова и заметно медленнее формулировать мысли. Его мозг стал зависеть от ИИ как от «внешнего мозга», поэтому шутка сравнивает чрезмерное использование ChatGPT с мемом «OW! MY BALLS!» и предупреждает о возможном ослаблении самостоятельного мышления. Такой мем отправляют как саркастическую реакцию на чрезмерную зависимость от ИИ и аутсорсинг собственных мыслей. EN: A screenshot post describes a Stanford graduate who, after heavy use of ChatGPT, started forgetting basic words and formulating thoughts more slowly. His brain had come to depend on AI as an “external brain,” so the joke compares excessive ChatGPT use with the “OW! MY BALLS!” meme and warns that independent thinking may weaken. People share this as a sarcastic reaction to overreliance on AI and outsourcing one’s own thoughts.

• @gentoomemes / 16844 2025-04-12