Re:Get a Personal Teacher
by CamperBob2 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:10PM
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With GPT it's more like rolling a d20 than a coin toss.
19-20=You receive the enlightenment you were asking for, more or less instantly.
3-18=You get what amounts to a Socratic conversation with Wikipedia. Which, unless you're fortunate enough to have access to expert personal mentorship, is better than what you had before.
1-2=You get a load of highly-plausible bullshit. You end up worse off intellectually, possibly much worse.
All in all, I'm OK with these odds, especially at this early stage of the LLM game.
19-20=You receive the enlightenment you were asking for, more or less instantly.
3-18=You get what amounts to a Socratic conversation with Wikipedia. Which, unless you're fortunate enough to have access to expert personal mentorship, is better than what you had before.
1-2=You get a load of highly-plausible bullshit. You end up worse off intellectually, possibly much worse.
All in all, I'm OK with these odds, especially at this early stage of the LLM game.