In the early days of ChatGPT where it seemed like this fun new thing, I used it to "learn" C. I don't remember anything it told me, and none of the answers it gave me were anything that I couldn't find elsewhere in different forms - heck I could have flipped open Kernighan & Ritchie to the right page and got the answer.
I had a conversation with an AI/Bitcoin enthusiast recently. Maybe that already tells you everything you need to know about this person, but to the hammer the point home, they made a claim to similar to you: "I learn much more and much better with AI". They also said they "fact check" things it "tells" them. Some moments later they told me "Bitcoin has its roots in Occupy Wall Street".
A simple web search tells you that Bitcoin is conceived a full 2 years before Occupy. How can they be related?
It's a simple error that can be fact checked simply. It's a pretty innocuous falsity in this particular case - but how many more falsehoods have they collected? How do those falsehoods influence them on a day-by-day basis?
How many falsehoods influence you?
A very well meaning activist posted a "comprehensive" list of all the programs that were to be halted by the grants and loans freezes last week. Some of the entries on the list weren't real, or not related to the freeze. They revealed they used ChatGPT to help compile the list and then went down one-by-one to verify each one.
With such meticulous attention to detail, incorrect information still filtered through.
I guess the real learning happens outside the AI, here in real life. Does the code run? Sure, it's on my local and not in production, but I would've never have the patience to get "that new thing working" without AI as assistant.
Does the food taste good? Oops, there's a bit too much vegetables here, they are never gonna fit in this pan of mine. Not a big deal, next time I'll be wiser.
AI is like a hypothesis machine. You're gonna have to figure out if the output is true. Few years ago, just testing any machine's "intelligence" was pretty quickly done and machine failed miserably. Now, the accuracy is astounishing in comparison.
> How many falsehoods influence you?
That is a great question. The answer is definitely not zero. I try to live by with a hacker mentality and I'm an engineer by trade. I read news and comments, which I'm not sure is good for me. But you also need some compassion towards oneself. It's not like ripping everything open will lead to salvation. I believe the truth does set you free, eventually. But all in one's time...
Anyway, AI is a tool like any other. Someone will hammer their fingers with it. I just don't understand the hate. It's not like we're drinking any AI koolaids here. It's just like it was 30 years ago (in my personal journey), you had a keyboard and a machine, you asked it things and got gibberish. Now the conversation with it just started to get interesting. Peace.
In the early days of ChatGPT where it seemed like this fun new thing, I used it to "learn" C. I don't remember anything it told me, and none of the answers it gave me were anything that I couldn't find elsewhere in different forms - heck I could have flipped open Kernighan & Ritchie to the right page and got the answer.
I had a conversation with an AI/Bitcoin enthusiast recently. Maybe that already tells you everything you need to know about this person, but to the hammer the point home, they made a claim to similar to you: "I learn much more and much better with AI". They also said they "fact check" things it "tells" them. Some moments later they told me "Bitcoin has its roots in Occupy Wall Street".
A simple web search tells you that Bitcoin is conceived a full 2 years before Occupy. How can they be related?
It's a simple error that can be fact checked simply. It's a pretty innocuous falsity in this particular case - but how many more falsehoods have they collected? How do those falsehoods influence them on a day-by-day basis?
How many falsehoods influence you?
A very well meaning activist posted a "comprehensive" list of all the programs that were to be halted by the grants and loans freezes last week. Some of the entries on the list weren't real, or not related to the freeze. They revealed they used ChatGPT to help compile the list and then went down one-by-one to verify each one.
With such meticulous attention to detail, incorrect information still filtered through.
Are you sure you are learning?