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by 343rwerfd 683 days ago
Claude Sonnet 3.5 at least works awesomely, you can just talk to it asking stuff, it will infer your knowledge level from your questions and start answering according to it, proposing a follow up path for further insigths about the subject. If you follow it up, usually it will take you to a somehow similar path as you would follow if you just happen to having been reading the wikipedia page for the subject you're asking Claude to explain about.

but if the subject isn't something that obvious as something you can find in the wikipedia, you'll be good too, Claude will take to a sort of "shortest path algorithm" of knowledge about the subject you're looking about.

if you side it with web searching, you'll see it takes some few keywords, concepts about the subject, and explains them, and you can go deeper searching them and looking other sources (blog posts, answers in reddit, etc.).

In Claude I found almost no hallucinations in the deepest explanations it answered in some research I've done with it, maybe some non-human focus on trivial details while not looking at more relevant stuff about the subject (I infer that the training data could be cramped with the less deep data, more people answering about the subject on internet from a shallow level of knowledge than a few experts answering really good explanations > you'll find these answers first when you begin web searching).