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I would suggest paying the $20/month rent, and trying to use ChatGPT o3/o4-mini-high/o1-pro as a tutor, to help you understand something you're curious about bu
by AlexCoventry 1y ago
I would suggest paying the $20/month rent, and trying to use ChatGPT o3/o4-mini-high/o1-pro as a tutor, to help you understand something you're curious about but never really had time or energy to dig into before. It's pretty glorious, and a straight-up pedagogical revolution, IMO.
- wizzwizz4 1y agoI would suggest getting a library card, and trying to read a good book, writing down any questions you might have for later review. While it doesn't feel as though you're learning as much, or as quickly, most people will find that they actually know a lot more about the subject afterwards. A chat log that takes me 2 hours to produce, I can read in 5 minutes. There's no world in which that's efficient pedagogy, even disregarding ChatGPT's truthfulness issues.
- AlexCoventry 1y agoTry it with a subject where you'd have to pick up text from multiple references, like a modern deep learning paper if that's not your field. I've tried it both ways, and I know what works for me, FWIW. The higher ChatGPT services hallucinate much less, and you can tell them to give confidence estimates on their claims. The confidence estimates are pretty reliable, in my experience. ChatGPT is improving very swiftly. A couple of months ago I was equally dismissive.
- verbify 1y agoHow do you know it isn't hallucinating? My experience of AI is that it can be very convincing and produce information that "looks right".
- AlexCoventry 1y agoI mostly use it in fields where its claims are easily verifiable.
- aprilthird2021 1y agoSo then it's no different from reading a Wikipedia page about a topic? I mean, if you only use it to teach you stuff you can verify, then couldn't you skip one step in this process?
- AlexCoventry 1y agoI learned Stochastic Differential Equations this way, for instance. I wasn't going to learn that so quickly from Wikipedia. https://chatgpt.com/share/6834ed85-4dac-800e-b940-3b9a5f13d687 https://chatgpt.com/share/6834ed85-4dac-800e-b940-3b9a5f13d6...
- aprilthird2021 1y agoIt's definitely more involved than the Wikipedia article. How do you confirm what it's saying is true?
- AlexCoventry 1y agoI just keep asking it questions until I hit a level of detail I can verify with my own mathematical understanding.
- aprilthird2021 1y agoAh okay, so it's used to summarize data about a topic in a field you understand well
- AlexCoventry 1y agoI guess, a summary which precisely targets what I need to be made explicit, to the extent I understand that.