I can’t speak for “traditional” learning methods, since I’ve long been out of school. But I find chat gpt is about as good at first pass research as google was

I can’t speak for “traditional” learning methods, since I’ve long been out of school. But I find chat gpt is about as good at first pass research as google was circa 2003. Google is no longer good for research. Used to be I didn’t know much on a topic and I could start googling and page 3 or so would start to have key words necessary to blow open the topic. google no longer even populates page 3. So I start with basic questions in chat gpt. I know it’s lying to me. But it uses words and phrases that seem interesting. I can iterate over that, and in a short time I know a phrase I can actually search for in google to find authoritative content. I wouldn’t quite call it a game changer yet, as all it’s done is give me back what I once had. But it is a bonus in that it can do an ok job synthesizing new examples from content that already had lots of disperate examples on the web. It can also give some clues when you find conflicting information as to why the information is conflicting. It’s making stuff up a lot, but there are always good clues in the output.