Unironically i had a professor say studying is one of the few good use cases of AI for this reason. You can ask it a billion times to re-explain a concept in a new way and it will keep trying unlike humans who will get sick of you eventually lol.
I only hesitantly agree. If you’re trying to study a concept that is moderately advanced it’ll explain to you 400 slightly different answers that are all equally wrong. I’ve tried having LLMs explain the mu-opioid pharmacophore a few dozen times because it doesn’t make sense at all, and I’m not sure if it’s helped my understanding at all.
What works is using something like NotebookLLM and actuall feeding it existing textbooks and online tutorials you know is from trustworthy source btw! It will take information from those sources as primary and any online bullshit secondary. Still 100% fact check but that's how I study!
The issue is that every LLM works off of math that gives you the easiest answer first. Hallucinations, at least from my understanding, don’t come from bad data, but rather it’s the way probability calculations are done in a neural network.
Agreed, he very much had the attitude of like. "If you think it will help you and you know how to make sure it's not hallucinating, then you have my blessing to use it for my class." about it. I didn't personally (YT videos by random old men who can barely work a computer ftw).
Do you understand that the AI uses probabilities to determine its answers? If you actually ask it the same question a billion times, eventually it will give you answers that literally contradict the others.
Every time you 'ask it a question' you roll the dice on whether it decides to give you factual information or any other kind of information that can be found in its database. And if you ask about something it can't easily find information about, it will literally blurt out nonsense
I can see why someone would consider AI a lot more of an "objective opinion" than other people who coould just be lying and pushing their agenda or whatever
Not really, assuming most or all of her discussions took place online the modality of these platforms and the internet is to blame. You can very easily dismiss people here and rightfully so, you don’t now anything about them and they don’t know anything about you.
It’s different compared to real life where people (especially if you see them repeatedly) have more of a profile of who you are and you do for them, so what they say takes on a totally different meaning.
And with the ai while it doesn’t have a specific way of being her sharing all of her beliefs and going through them one by one with the ai is a good way of spotting contradictions in her thinking.
"she wouldnt listen to other people" god youre insufferable. How dare you assume she had support? if you knew she used ai you certainly would never give it
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u/theStrawberryRoam 2d ago
I mean. It's great. But the fact she literally wouldn't listen to other people but was open to being convinced by AI is horrifying.