Comment by crote

Now compare that to the various books people mentioned at [0]. It isn't even remotely close.

You spoonfed ChatGPT, and it returned a bunch of semi-relevant formulas and code snippets. But a tutorial? Absolutely not. For starters, it never explains what it is doing, or why! It is missing some crucial concepts, and it doesn't even begin to describe how the various parts fit together.

If this counts as "pretty freaking good" already, I am afraid to ask what you think average educational material looks like.

Sure, it's a nice trick that we can now get a LLM to semi-coherently stitch some StackOverflow answers together, but let's not get ahead of ourselves: there's still a lot of improvement to be done before it is on par with human writing.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448544