| ▲ | nightwalkerkg 3 hours ago | |||||||
My main issue with using AI as a learning platform is that unlike documentation, books, Youtube videos, there is not really a process of having someone "review the learning material". For example, I can always read the review of some book or ciriculum, the comments under a video, or if it's some for of open source documentation you can check the PRs and verify to some extent it's claim. With AI I can't really say what it has halucinated, because I am learning a new thing, I don't have that benefit of previously reviewed material. | ||||||||
| ▲ | ethin 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
This is (exactly) why I very strongly tell people not to teach themselves with an LLM. Particularly from the ground up. If you do not understand the domain, you cannot learn from the model because you won't know what questions to ask and it certainly isn't going to answer all of them for you. | ||||||||
| ▲ | j45 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
You can ask the LLM to connect the dots to the sources before displaying it to you so you can see the proof in line. You can ask the LLM how to do this. Start with a topic you know well to get the mechanism working and trust it well. | ||||||||
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