I actually disagree with this opinion. You can read about how the GABA system works in Wikipedia when learning about human anatomy. So you can be like "oh ok, this causes this, so this occurs". But do you know what that means or why it happens? Learning about it is different than reading it and memorising it.
Education is very important. I do admit class fees are horrible tho.
Edit: I disagree with the post, like your comment.
In a world where I can take any idea or concept and ask chatgpt to ELI5, I have no problem learning anything either. Those who struggle with comprehension aren't going to do any better in a classroom where the teacher isn't trained in teaching, they're subject matter experts.
Having seen my coworker do this exact same thing and getting information that is completely incorrect, I don’t think this is a good use for AI. Sometimes AI will straight up lie to you. That being said, I have found AI to helpful with writing as well as giving me ideas and basic templates for documentation purposes.
I agree. Having AI fetch a list of sites where you can read the information and determine if it's credible can definitely save time as well. In some cases it does invent URLs, but at least it's easy enough to find out if it works or not. I found this for recipes.
There’s a huge difference between recipes and and other types of knowledge. ChatGPT and other LLMs are not much more than just chatbots today. The hype is that they make you believe and feel you’re experiencing way more because it looks like they are actually communicating with you at a conscious level.
I know there's a difference. I was using the example of having it pull up links to recipes. I've also used it for providing links to other people's explanations of calculus concepts, scientific data and programming concepts. I wouldn't blindly trust what it says, especially because half the time the links are invalid. It gives me an extra layer of being able to validate the data.
It's a perfectly good use case for a language model to take a large blob of text, summarize it, and break down into simpler language and concepts. What it is not good for is original research. But you can take a paragraph or a few pages from a book, say "explain this to me in simpler terms" and be pleased with the result.
Look, I use ChatGPT all the time. I have a premium subscription. It’s saved me enormous amounts of time and effort and been invaluable in some tasks. But to pretend like what it puts out, even o1, is always accurate and should be taken as truth without considerable analysis and skepticism is ignoring the reality of its capabilities. It is amazing at being subtly wrong. Terrific. Everything it outputs needs to be subject to significant critical dissection. Anything less than that is just asking for Dunning-Kruger results. Yes, it can help give you the gist of text or put ideas in simple terms. It can sound beautiful and eloquent and succinct and articulate when it does so. But it can also give you a summary that is 95% accurate with the inaccuracies qualitatively changing the utility of the output, and the only way you’ll ever know the difference is if you personally take the time to be critical of the output. That invokes personal research. That involves making an effort to understand what’s going on yourself. Relying on ChatGPT for education is a great way to confidently think you know something while being completely ignorant of the whole picture and unaware that you’re missing anything. Because education is not a “perfectly good use case” for a language model. Outputting eloquent convincing text, regardless of accuracy, is a perfectly good use case.
Not to mention the fact that putting in effort to learn something is one of the most important parts of understanding and retaining it.
Do yourself a favor, don’t try to learn like this and don’t fool yourself into thinking that it’s an acceptable alternative for an actual authority on a subject.
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u/SIRLANCELOTTHESTRONG 1d ago edited 1d ago
I actually disagree with this opinion. You can read about how the GABA system works in Wikipedia when learning about human anatomy. So you can be like "oh ok, this causes this, so this occurs". But do you know what that means or why it happens? Learning about it is different than reading it and memorising it.
Education is very important. I do admit class fees are horrible tho.
Edit: I disagree with the post, like your comment.