Comment by bigstrat2003
21 hours ago
> Though I guess people would argue you can just ask a LLM now instead of reading my book.
I would certainly not argue that. LLMs do not understand anything, and are thus prone to non-deterministic inaccuracies in their output. Due to that, I think it is extremely foolish to use one for learning unfamiliar topics. Give me a book every time, because (if it's a good book) I am guaranteed to actually learn something. Not so with LLMs.
Additionally, no matter how good LLMs get, they're always going to prioritize the most cookie cutter answers to questions because they're looking for the "best match" - the most common answer.
With books the author can give advice that's not as widely known and is thus much less likely to show up in an LLM output.