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0 pointsverbify10mo ago0 comments

How do you know it isn't hallucinating? My experience of AI is that it can be very convincing and produce information that "looks right".

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AlexCoventry10mo ago

I mostly use it in fields where its claims are easily verifiable.

aprilthird202110mo ago

So then it's no different from reading a Wikipedia page about a topic? I mean, if you only use it to teach you stuff you can verify, then couldn't you skip one step in this process?

AlexCoventry10mo ago

I learned Stochastic Differential Equations this way, for instance. I wasn't going to learn that so quickly from Wikipedia.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6834ed85-4dac-800e-b940-3b9a5f13d6...

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0 pointsverbify10mo ago0 comments

How do you know it isn't hallucinating? My experience of AI is that it can be very convincing and produce information that "looks right".

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AlexCoventry10mo ago

I mostly use it in fields where its claims are easily verifiable.

aprilthird202110mo ago

So then it's no different from reading a Wikipedia page about a topic? I mean, if you only use it to teach you stuff you can verify, then couldn't you skip one step in this process?

AlexCoventry10mo ago

I learned Stochastic Differential Equations this way, for instance. I wasn't going to learn that so quickly from Wikipedia.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6834ed85-4dac-800e-b940-3b9a5f13d6...

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