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Re:Teaching with AI by Osmose on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:02AM (#37347667)
These are not at all comparable? This would be more like seasoning with salt in predefined amounts and not knowing how to season to taste, which will fall apart the moment you deviate from the recipe or change up the seasoning mix at all.

ChatGPT might tell you how much salt to use but you'll be screwed when it tells you to use 5 tablespoons for a small steak and you don't have the fundamentals to question it or figure out where it went wrong.

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Re:Teaching with AI by beardedwizard on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:22AM (#37347759)
Salt never accidentally turns itself into cyanide. This argument is moot so long as llms hallucinate.

Also, llms are not a source of reliable knowledge as a result, they are knowledge augmented in knowledge cases. So really you are arguing students should read the knowledge base, the "augment" is just a thin conversational summarizing veneer.

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