Tag: cognitive-science
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Processing fluency
Processing fluency is the ease with which the mind takes in information. People read that ease as a sign that something is true, familiar, or good, which is why fluent AI-generated text is persuasive whatever its accuracy, and why markers who equate clear writing with clear thinking need to separate the two.
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
Source details Matuschak, A., & Nielsen, M. (2019). How can we develop transformative tools for thought? numinous.productions/ttft .
Similarities between AI and human thinking: What if we're the language models?
Discussion of AI and human cognition usually dwells on the differences. Turn the question around and the terminology of language models describes human thinking surprisingly well: context windows, biased training data, tokenisation, temperature, hallucination, system prompts, and pattern matching all have human counterparts, some of which health professions education already has names for. The similarities say something about our own cognitive architecture, and the strength of our resistance to them says something about what our professional identities depend on.