[qsort]

This is similar to the moral panic around Google and Wikipedia. No, people won't stop learning because of chatgpt.

Studying and developing critical thinking is more important than ever before. What people miss when they babble stuff like "math is useless" or "literature is useless" or "history is useless" is that those things are not important by themselves, they are important because you are learning models and tools to interpret the world.

You know, the things that differentiate you from a dumb machine.

[apple-sauce]

But you will have no incentive to learn a model to interpret world, because there will be a ML-based model that computes that for you, much faster with less effort from your side. Some people already doing that with ChatGPT & co. And more will come, because it only exploits our worst evolutionary enemies agains ourselfs. Learning IS hard, let alone critical thinking. Let just ask GPT-3. And then again. And again. More is better, right?

[submeta]

> No, people won't stop learning because of chatgpt.

Actually it’s the opposite. People will start learning more, because of ChatGPT.

Since I started using ChatGPT I am learning new things on a daily basis, about philosophy, about history, about computer sciences, about algorithms, about all sorts of things.

It’s a lot of fun diving into subjects in a conversational way, with a „teacher“ by my side who never gets tired answering every one of my questions.

[jvanderbot]

I asked about an algorithm we used at work, and it gave an incorrect answer that, if taken as truth, could have derailed our tech plan.

Take facts as though they were from an undergrad in the subject pontificating after a few beers.

[onion2k]

Are you checking it's answering your questions correctly?

[Jensson]

I assume his goal is to become a professional bull-shitter, not a knowledge worker, then ChatGPT is great. Bull shitting has excellent career prospects so it is a perfectly valid path in life, the biggest risk is that ChatGPT could replace them pretty soon.