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 pay money to get a worse experience? The breadth of questions you can ask an LLM is way more than an individual studying a small slice of physics.

I saw this in my own domain of expertise. chatgpt knows way more coding than me, and ive been doing this for 26 years.

I can ask an ai for hours on end to compare different aspects of different theories. There is lots to mine, and it’s easier to query than a human. It’s like a natural language interface to wikipedia. No human on earth is a walking talking wikipedia, chatgpt is the closest thing to it.