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I agree, especially if you consider these were the questions on OP's mind: > just out of curiosity, I wanted to learn more. I get that LEDs consume less energy

by WA 3y ago

I agree, especially if you consider these were the questions on OP's mind: > just out of curiosity, I wanted to learn more. I get that LEDs consume less energy and release less heat, and that they're made using semiconductors. But what kinds of semiconductors? How do semiconductors work in general, anyway? And they proceed to type "LED" into Google. Why not "led what kind of semiconductor" and "how do semiconductors work in leds"? I assume, OP didn't write "LED" in the ChatGPT text box without any context either.

vipshek 3y ago
For what it’s worth, the transcript I posted is 100% of the conversation I had with GPT-4. “How do LEDs work?” was the only thing I wrote in the initial question. I did try Googling “how do LEDs work” for comparison, but it yielded the same top few results. Of course, I could have iteratively tried different search queries to get to the answers I wanted, but this gets at my real point: I don’t have to formulate 5 different search queries anymore, allowing me to maintain one focused line of inquiry. I talk about this a little in the “fewer browser tabs” bit of the post. I do think someone could create an alternative search UI that would be better for learning on the web. Something where you can run multiple searches and “collect” the useful information you find into a single page, rather than having the results split across a mess of browser tabs and note-taking windows. Maybe I just find juggling many browser tabs more annoying than other people do? Anyway, I tried the queries you posted above, and most resources I found were still very confusing for a layman. The one exception is this page, which I think does a great job of introducing additional complexity on this topic gradually: https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/led.htm https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/led.htm

by WA 3y ago

vipshek 3y ago

For what it’s worth, the transcript I posted is 100% of the conversation I had with GPT-4. “How do LEDs work?” was the only thing I wrote in the initial question. I did try Googling “how do LEDs work” for comparison, but it yielded the same top few results. Of course, I could have iteratively tried different search queries to get to the answers I wanted, but this gets at my real point: I don’t have to formulate 5 different search queries anymore, allowing me to maintain one focused line of inquiry. I talk about this a little in the “fewer browser tabs” bit of the post. I do think someone could create an alternative search UI that would be better for learning on the web. Something where you can run multiple searches and “collect” the useful information you find into a single page, rather than having the results split across a mess of browser tabs and note-taking windows. Maybe I just find juggling many browser tabs more annoying than other people do? Anyway, I tried the queries you posted above, and most resources I found were still very confusing for a layman. The one exception is this page, which I think does a great job of introducing additional complexity on this topic gradually: https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/led.htm https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/led.htm