The control group spent time practicing, and the AI group just watched the AI solve problems. The performance gap can potentially be described by the efficacy of practice alone. But the increase in skipped problems is a good illustration of cognitive offloading gone awry. Too bad the researchers didn’t ask them why they chose to skip.
The control group spent time practicing, and the AI group just watched the AI solve problems. The performance gap can potentially be described by the efficacy of practice alone. But the increase in skipped problems is a good illustration of cognitive offloading gone awry. Too bad the researchers didn’t ask them why they chose to skip.