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by philipswood
493 days ago
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After watching [Oxford Researchers Discover How to Use AI to Learn Like a Genius](https://youtu.be/TPLPpz6dD3A?si=FJJ-S6wz0PPrJuSn) a few days ago, I've been using ChatGPT in "reverse mode" a lot. I give it a excerpt of a text I'm reading and ask it to ask me questions from it at different levels of detail. I have to say it feels like a superpower! The answers to questions that you needed to supply really stick on your memory as do the links that spontaneously form to bodies of knowledge you already know when answering deeper level questions. I'm thinking that LLMs might actually address some of Plato's complaints against reading and writing: > You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting. The painter’s products stand before us as though they were alive. But if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence. It is the same with written words. They seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say from a desire to be instructed they go on telling just the same thing forever. See [here](https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/). |
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What I want is for my ereader to feed the text I just read into a good LLM and then quiz me on what I read.
What’s kind of funny is that I hated homework as a kid, now I’m basically begging for a computer to give me some