Sana Qadar speaks with cognitive neuroscientist Reuben Rideaux and English professor Sophie Gee about how using AI may affect thinking, memory and creative work. They examine cognitive offloading, the potential contributions of AI tools, and which parts of intellectual activity benefit from continued human engagement.
ePoster · Neuroscience
Intelligence Offloading and the Neurosimulation of Developmental Agents
Jesse Parent · Neuromatch 5
Wed, Sep 28, 2022
Cognitive offloading occurs when environmental affordances expand cognitive capacity as well as facilitate spatial and social behaviors. Yet capacity-related constraints are also important, particularly as an embodied agent comes online during development. Vast differences in brain size and offloading capacity exist across the tree of life. Taking a developmental perspective, we utilize several concepts from cybernetics and the evolution of development to understand how we might determine the proportion of internal model (brain) to externalized processing (offloading) in a developing embodied