💼 Business 1d ago · Thomas Oppong

Learning faster with AI is making you worse at remembering

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Learning faster with AI is making you worse at remembering
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As artificial intelligence makes it easier to get the answers you want to any question, retaining knowledge is becoming a rare skill. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve (introduced by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885) proves that we lose most of what we learn over time if we don’t reinforce it or put it into practice.



People are not interested in retention. They may be thinking, Who cares if you can use AI to find out what you want? But we are losing more thinking capacity than we realiz

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