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oceanhaiyang | 5 months ago

No one who understands ai can rely on it to help us learn. I provided one with 100 citations I wanted to standardize and it deleted 10 and made up 10 to replace them. Can’t imagine this being used to replace a textbook or even explain a textbook.

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criddell|5 months ago

> explain a textbook

I've had very good luck using LLMs to do this. I paste the part of the book that I don't understand and ask questions about it.

bigfishrunning|5 months ago

But the problem is, you don't understand the passage, so therefore how will you vet the answers? Seems like hallucinations would be very very damaging in this use-case

j45|5 months ago

What you input along side the prompt can go a long way.

ethmarks|5 months ago

I don't follow your logic from 'When I tried it, AI hallucinated some citations' to 'AI is fundamentally incapable of explaining a textbook'. Those seem like rather different tasks to me. Plenty of humans are perfectly capable of paraphrasing and summarizing a textbook but struggle with standardizing citations.

CamperBob2|5 months ago

What is "it": what models did you try? What was your prompt? When did you try it?