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by legohead 400 days ago
I love LLMs, and actually feel they are making me smarter.

I'll be thinking of something in the car, like how do torque converters work? And then I start live talk session with GPT and we start talking about it. Unlike a Wikipedia article that just straight tells you how it works, I can dive down into each detail that is confusing to me until I fully understand it. It's incredible, for the curious.

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If you're curious about torque converters I suspect you're careful about this, but what's your information vetting process? I use LLMs via text, so I can verify info as it streams in. How do you verify what's spoken to you in a car?
I do the same as GP on a regular 2 hour drive up I-5 I take.

The vetting process is the same as if I were driving up I-5 with a gear head friend of mine having a conversation with them as we go.

If something sounds off I just tell it I think it's wrong or to double check itself, similar to what I do with text.
I also rather use them as a tutor of sorts than "please do things for me." I think they're quite useful in that regard, albeit I know not to trust them fully as the only source of information.