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The good thing about ChatGPT is that you can keep asking it to explain something in a different way until it explains it in a way that “clicks” with you. Of co

The good thing about ChatGPT is that you can keep asking it to explain something in a different way until it explains it in a way that “clicks” with you. Of course you then have to compare this explanation against all others and see if it fits or if it’s not a valid explanation. It’s also great for exploring topics which have polluted namespaces on search engines. Overall though I think the majour benefit of ChatGPT is it just teaches people to clearly define problems as natural language questions. Developing this ability helps the subconscious mind solve problems when the user is away from screens.

teleforce 3y ago
+1 for this, I think this is one of the most useful and underrated things enabled by ChatGPT for effective learning. One of the types of teaching video that I've found very helpful is where an expert, usually a professor explaining a concept (e.g zero knowledge proof) to five different audiences starting from school kids up to fellow researchers or professors. You can basically ask many different targeted levels of questions to ChatGPT for example, explain the concept as I am five years old, etc.
quijoteuniv 3y ago
Yes, but my impression is that chatGPT returns are really linked to the intelligence of the user. How good are to get things out of it. For a clever person starting to code you can easily jumps all the technical hops of the base knowdledge needed to start creating. In every discipline you need base knowdledge that allow you to be able to make the connections.
slashdev 3y ago
When you want to compare software or library X versus Y ChatGPT is excellent. Google is a morass of spam on those queries.
Guthur 3y ago
> Overall though I think the majour benefit of ChatGPT is it just teaches people to clearly define problems as natural language questions. Developing this ability helps the subconscious mind solve problems when the user is away from screens. Yeah we've had them for a while, it was called the rubber duck, ;)

teleforce 3y ago

+1 for this, I think this is one of the most useful and underrated things enabled by ChatGPT for effective learning. One of the types of teaching video that I've found very helpful is where an expert, usually a professor explaining a concept (e.g zero knowledge proof) to five different audiences starting from school kids up to fellow researchers or professors. You can basically ask many different targeted levels of questions to ChatGPT for example, explain the concept as I am five years old, etc.

quijoteuniv 3y ago

Yes, but my impression is that chatGPT returns are really linked to the intelligence of the user. How good are to get things out of it. For a clever person starting to code you can easily jumps all the technical hops of the base knowdledge needed to start creating. In every discipline you need base knowdledge that allow you to be able to make the connections.

slashdev 3y ago

When you want to compare software or library X versus Y ChatGPT is excellent. Google is a morass of spam on those queries.

Guthur 3y ago

> Overall though I think the majour benefit of ChatGPT is it just teaches people to clearly define problems as natural language questions. Developing this ability helps the subconscious mind solve problems when the user is away from screens. Yeah we've had them for a while, it was called the rubber duck, ;)