Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?

2025/10/21 by Helen Pearson · 1 voice · 1 citation
Medicine · #Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education #Innovations in Medical Education #Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare

paper · doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03340-w

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• The LLM-using group showed the weakest connectivity — suggesting that there was less cross-brain communication — and could sometimes barely remember a word of their prose. From: Nature 646, 788-791 (2 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]