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by Throw73849 1128 days ago
It is not a calculator, but can explain concepts in math pretty well. It does not lie about well documented facts, such as basic university course. It needs a lot of training data.

And if student can not recognize their teacher is bullshiting them, there is a bigger problem.
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SketchySeaBeast 1128 days ago
> And if student can not recognize their teacher is bullshiting them

If it's a learner's first exposure to a topic what indicators can they use to identify that ChatGPT is lying to them?

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Throw73849 1128 days ago
The same indicators they would use with teacher? Studyig is about reading books, comparing sources. Not copying notes.

At university if you discover teacher is lying, you may get prosecuted, expelled, and loose $100k on student loans.

Edit: response to your other comment, I am being rationed by HN

As I said, ChatGPT is good at answering and explaining questions. It can replace teacher as "explainer", not as some sort of dogmatic source of truth. Text book does not answer questions, ChatGPT does! If some section of textbook is too vague to understand, you may ask questions to get better understanding!

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SketchySeaBeast 1128 days ago
If it's the case where you're going to other sources, why use ChatGPT at all? It doesn't source its information so you can't actually confirm without reading other sources which do source their information. Why would I care to learn German from ChatGPT when I could use a textbook that has had editors and subject matter experts vet that it won't lie to me? What is unique and useful about ChatGPT that's not also a weakness?

> At university if you discover teacher is lying, you may get prosecuted, expelled, and loose $100k on student loans.

Sorry, you're saying that the student will lose that?

This is my response to your edit:

> As I said, ChatGPT is good at answering and explaining questions. It can replace teacher as "explainer", not as some sort of dogmatic source of truth. Text book does not answer questions, ChatGPT does! If some section of textbook is too vague to understand, you may ask questions to get better understanding!

But if the explanation is lies and you need to go to a source to verify that ChatGPT just didn't lie to you, how is it of value?

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