[verbify]

How do you know it isn't hallucinating? My experience of AI is that it can be very convincing and produce information that "looks right".

[AlexCoventry]

I mostly use it in fields where its claims are easily verifiable.

[aprilthird2021]

So then it's no different from reading a Wikipedia page about a topic? I mean, if you only use it to teach you stuff you can verify, then couldn't you skip one step in this process?

[AlexCoventry]

I learned Stochastic Differential Equations this way, for instance. I wasn't going to learn that so quickly from Wikipedia.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6834ed85-4dac-800e-b940-3b9a5f13d6...

[aprilthird2021]

It's definitely more involved than the Wikipedia article. How do you confirm what it's saying is true?

[AlexCoventry]

I just keep asking it questions until I hit a level of detail I can verify with my own mathematical understanding.

[aprilthird2021]

Ah okay, so it's used to summarize data about a topic in a field you understand well