A study by MIT analyzed the impact of ChatGPT on the cognitive abilities of professionals in the workplace. The research focused on understanding how generative AI tools affect workers' cognitive effort.
The results indicate that ChatGPT does not improve cognitive effort in a positive way, altering it in the opposite direction to what organizations adopting these technologies expect. The study suggests that the tool may be replacing mental tasks instead of complementing them.
The growing interest of companies in implementing generative AI tools has been driving this type of research. Organizations want to better understand the consequences of the mass adoption of these technologies on the skills and abilities of their employees.
