Comment by rimliu
10 hours ago
No. These tools are very good at creating illusion of learning, without any learning. When you watch them do stuff, you think, yeah I got this. Once they are gone, you realize all your supposed skill is gone too. Getting a skill requires deliberate practice. You can use AI for that, but just using AI is not that.
Spot on there’s an easy test.
Ask said person who learned something to describe it back to you in their own words.
Then watch them fumble :)
The second test is - explain it in such simple terms that someone who has barely any knowledge of it can understand it.
Why no? It sounds like you agree with the person you replied to
There's an old Latin proverb "Scribere bis legere", which translates to "writing is reading twice".
In practice, what this means is that you can read some subject many times, but you would still struggle to reproduce the content by yourself. That is why, when learning, it is not sufficient to just read the material several times.