[fn-mote]

> What’s your hypothesis of how AI can accelerate how your brain understands something?

What are your beliefs / hypothesis of how having a human teacher can help you understand something?

AI explanations are no longer terrible garbage. The LLM might not be doing original research, but it has definitely read the textbook. :/ And 1000 related works.

You shouldn't believe the LLM when it tells you how to micro-optimize your code, but you can take suggestions as a starting point and verify them.

[jasonfarnon]

"What are your beliefs / hypothesis of how having a human teacher can help you understand something?"

One precondition is the human teacher can challenge you independently of your own self-control/will.

[bawis]

This is a bad case of whataboutism (I hate this word but it describes the answer you gave), what do you mean by accelerating understanding? Maybe they are good as suggestion engines, but it is very early to state what you did.

[andoando]

I use them every day to learn things.

Theyre alot more than "suggestion engines". They can reason with you, show you examples, tell you how to dig deeper and verify what theyre saying, etc.