Comment by multjoy
6 months ago
How do you know that ChatGPT is teaching you about the topic? It doesn't know what is right or what is wrong.
6 months ago
How do you know that ChatGPT is teaching you about the topic? It doesn't know what is right or what is wrong.
It can consult any sources about any topic, ChatGPT is as good at teaching as the pupil's capabilities to ask the right questions, if you ask me
I like to ask AI systems sports trivia. It's something low-stakes, easy-to-check, and for which there's a ton of good clean data out there.
It sucks at sports trivia. It will confidently return information that is straight up wrong [1]. This should be a walk in the park for an LLM, but it fails spectacularly at it. How is this useful for learning at all?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669364
But just because it's wrong about sports trivia doesn't mean it's wrong about anything else! /s [0]
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
It may well consult any source about the topic, or it may simply make something up.
If you don't know anything about the subject area, how do you know if you are asking the right questions?
LLM fans never seem very comfortable answering the question "How do you know it's correct?"
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