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> It's probably going to devalue memorizing facts and concepts in the same way the internet already has [..] OK, thought experiment: try to think of the bright
by logifail 4y ago
> It's probably going to devalue memorizing facts and concepts in the same way the internet already has [..]
OK, thought experiment: try to think of the brightest people you know/ever knew. Not the most successful, but the ones where after every interaction you were left thinking "wow, person X is really, really smart". I can think of a handful of people from over the decades, who worked in wildly different fields.
All of them were really good at recalling facts and at quickly grasping concepts. None of them ever needed anything explaining (or even saying!) twice.
Note: this isn't about people who excel at rote learning (like you might do for a school test), just there are people out there who are simply great at absorbing information.
ChatGPT isn't that, and my prediction is that it will never be that. People who are great at writing prompts for ChatGPT aren't going to be that, either.
- hfbff 4y ago>People who are great at writing prompts for ChatGPT aren't going to be that, either. I don't see why this would be true. If you have evidence of some strong argument on why this would be true, I'd like to hear them. As an anecdote, I work with young people (x<25) that don't seem to be worse at recalling facts than the older generation. The bright/geeky ones grew up reading up wikipedia and, in fact, have a wider grasp of facts/stories than the older generation (in my experience)