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0 pointsjoshstrange2y ago0 comments

> Humans are likely to share when they don't know something or to express concern when they aren't positive what they're is correct.

We must have met very different humans. Are there humans that do that this? Absolutely! Are they in the majority? Absolutely not. Now if you change that framing to "teachers" then I think on average you are going to get more people like that but I've heard many many people say things with complete confidence/certainty that was absolutely wrong. Then again, I've had teachers that have made predictions/statements that they state as facts so I don't know. Dunning-Kruger can account for part of it but still.

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parineum2y ago

There are good teachers and bad teachers. LLMs are at best, bad teachers.

NikolaNovak2y ago

>>LLMs are at best, bad teachers.

I could not disagree more.

ChatGPT is patient. That's a rare quality in humans and teachers.

ChatGPT will willingly explore. That's also a rare quality in teachers.

ChatGPT is detailed and structured, and has instant access to enormous amount of data and background.

I will grant you that there are domains of knowledge and questions where it's great, and where it'll lie to you through your teeth. But as a patient, detailed, willing, knowledgeable tutor in basic/well-covered areas, it's virtually unparalleled. I'm a hungry learner and have had large number of teachers, tutors and mentors through several continents, countries, societies and educational paradigms; and only the very very top are as good - and I've actually been the lucky one. My wife and my sister, for example, based on their accounts, simply never had a teacher/tutor as good as ChatGPT :-<

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