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by photochemsyn 1129 days ago
I think people getting into AI today instead ask ChatGPT and similar models questions like:

> "What field of modern science relies heavily on "linear regression, bias and variance, cost function and gradient descent, regularisation and optimisation"?"

To dive into a particular topic:

> "Provide a course outline for a four week course, meeting twice a week, that focuses on linear regression in the context of machine learning and the relationship between inputs and outputs."

And to get to the actual material, zoom in some more:

> "Please expand Session 2: Simple Linear regression into an hour-long talk focused on Python coding approaches to the problem"

And again, to get some working code:

> "For topic #2, please provide an explicit code example of using numpy, pandas and scikit-learn to load a dataset, preprocess the data, and split it into training and testing sets"

Anyone can generate a course on any topic using this approach, with pretty good results.

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With the rate of hallucination, learning via ChatGPT is questionable at best, especially when someone doesn't know enough to know when it is hallucinating.