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Re: Study mode

#31

Why do I still feel like I'll be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for my children's education when all they're going to do is all learn through AI anyway.

At my university I took a physics course where the homework was always 4-6 gimmick questions or proofs that were so hard that we would form groups after class just to copy whoever could divine the solutions.

I ultimately dropped the course and took it in the summer at a community college where we had the 20-30 standard practice problem homework where you apply what you learned in class and grind problems to bake it into core memory.

AI would have helped me at least get through the uni course. But generally I think it's a problem with the school/class itself if you aren't learning most of what you need in class.

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post #5

I would like to see randomized control group studies using study mode. Does it offer meaningful benefits to students over self directed study? Does it out perform students who are "learning how to learn"? What affect does allowing students to make mistakes have compared to being guided through what to review? I would hope Study Mode would produce flash card prompts and quantize information for usage in spaced repetit…

Come on. Asking an educational product to do a basic sanity test as to whether it helps is far too high a bar. Almost no educational app does that sort of thing.

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#35

Modern day Cliff's Notes. There is no way to learn without effort. I understand they are not claiming this, but many students want a silver bullet. There isn't one.

But tutors are fine. The video is suggesting that this is an attempt to automate a tutor, not replace Cliff's Notes. Whether it succeeds, I have no idea.

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#36
I honestly don't know how they convince employees to make features like this - like, they must dogfood and see how wrong the models can be sometimes. Yet there's a conscious choice to not only release this to, but actively target, vast swathes of people that literally don't know better.

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post #26

I'll personally attest: LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation. It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible, and the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you. Now, everyone ba…

> the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you.

I find it odd that someone who has been to college would see this as a _bad_ way to learn something.

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post #26

I'll personally attest: LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation. It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible, and the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you. Now, everyone ba…

You can always ask in stack exchange, IRC or forums.

Closed: duplicate

Closed: RTFM, dumbass

Re: Study mode

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post #26

I'll personally attest: LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation. It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible, and the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you. Now, everyone ba…

When ChatGPT came out it was like I had the old Google back.

Learning a new programming language used to be mediated with lots of useful trips to Google to understand how some particular bit worked, but Google stopped being useful for that years ago. Even if the content you're looking for exists, it's buried.

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