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0 pointsjosephg2y ago0 comments

Yeah - but there’s a lot of domains where that is fine. I’m in France at the moment and I’ve been using chatgpt as a tour guide. I’m sure some of what it says is wrong, but I don’t honestly care. It’s also fantastic for teaching. I’ve been doing some self study lately and it’s been helping me to figure out what I should spend time learning and help direct my self study sessions toward what will help.

I listened to an interview with the StabilityAI founder / ceo the other day. He said we should think about LLMs like having a bunch of clever grad students / interns floating around that we can freely offload tasks to. They aren’t experts, but they’re very diligent. The question is, how can we effectively make use of them? People who succeed at this will be much more productive.

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PawgerZ2y ago

Can you explain how you use it for teaching/study? I also have used it to learn but with mixed results. Recently, I've been asking it to write me outlines so I can have somewhat of a learning plan.

josephgOP2y ago

I'm learning AI at the moment. I gave ChatGPT the following prompt:

> Write a training plan for a series of lessons to teach someone modern deep learning. The training plan should last for approximately 3 months of lessons.

> The lesson plan is for a single student with a strong background in programming (systems programming, algorithms and web). But the student has little knowledge of python. And university level mathematics knowledge but relatively weak skills in linear algebra, probability and statistics.

> By the end of the training process, the student should know modern deep learning methods and techniques and be able to modify, implement and deploy AI based systems.

> Think through your answer. Start by listing out learning objectives, then write a teaching plan to meet those learning objectives.

The response from chatgpt was super long! It gave me recommendations for what to study each week for the next 3 months. I've started going through the material it recommended. For the first 2 weeks, my goal is to learn the basics of python, and learn some linear algebra, and probability and statistics. Then its just a case of finding appropriate material online. I'm watching a lecture series on youtube teaching matrix mathematics now.

[1] https://chat.openai.com/share/d6966012-0d96-4511-b96e-086b80...

chinchilla20202y ago

Most of those topics require months to learn. Is it feeding you a small number of lessons each week?

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