Oddbean new post about login | logout ai powers most of my learning these days. during my 1h walk a day i get ai to read articles and papers to me. I occasionally stop to talk to chatgpt and ask questions about certain topics. What a bizarre future we’re in.
The future is here
are you getting a quality responses? Do you check them or consider them true, since you know it's all knowing AI...lol
I treat it as if it was a really smart autistic human. I don’t assume 100% accuracy of course, i don’t think any individual entity is perfect. it gets me in roughly the correct area so i can explore further. Usually it’s quite good.
My GF calls chatGPT my best friend, because I'm always talking to it. I was actually just asking it about some camera settings that I need to optimise 😂
Ew ChatGPT? I'm a Mistral maxi. Open technology only
chatgpt voice model is so good, and you can interrupt it
nice. I'll wait for the open source equivalent to come out, myself. Don't need it yet. Would be awesome to make a robot that did that, like a protocol droid.
Don’t forget to fact check otherwise there is a good chance you’re learning a thing that does not exist ;)
Happens with humans too who make shit up
I tried to learn Kotlin with Copilot. It invents random syntax and imaginary libraries. I end up reading a book in couple of evenings and googled afterword. It was much faster for me. I don’t understand argument “humans also just predict next symbol in their speech”. It only part of our brain does that and for efficiency only. You didn’t used that part of your brain to optimize your new app, right? Why you rely on it while learning?
I must confess... I find myself reading Brave Search's Leo AI summaries a lot lately.
Where/how do you find/select interesting papers to read?
How can you tell if the AI isn't hallucinating in these matters? It might be okay for summarizing texts, but for everything else, not so much.
that's part of the bizarre future isn't it, how human subject matter experts have gained such an unreliable reputation that people are rather willing to take the risk of some potentially hallucinating AI over trusting someone 🙂
Would love to find an expert in ai/physics who is ok to put up with every stupid and random question i have at odd hours of the day
I can pretend to be one for you and make all the answers up
This post got me curious to check it out. Not bad at all. Great for hands free learning while walking. Any tips/tricks you could share on getting most out of it?
I have an ios lockscreen shortcut that opens chatgpt voice mode, so I can quickly jump in and ask questions. I switch between that, speechify, podcasts and audio books. Now that i figured out speechify can read pdfs as well, i am going to start adding some papers to my listening queue. Im always curious about new things i learn and how they are related to other concepts i recently learned. LLMs are good at making comparisons to things due to the way they are structured as a knowledge compression algo, and they are only going to get better as they get bigger: https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis At least thats the hypothesis at the moment