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Exactly. In school I couldn't understand the Heine-Borel theorem and a professor actually got annoyed at me asking about it even though it was just one time. When ChatGPT was first released one of the first things I did was ask it to explain it to me. Even the 3.0 model was pretty good at it!

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I must admit, I am quite envious of students with these tools. I wish I had this during my studies.

Certainly as my parent's generation must have been with the internet and computers for me.

I'm not sure what to do with this envy. Though, it has made me want to have a child even more, just to see first hand how they could develop so much faster and smarter than me.

What I also love is that you can ask it to explain with varying degrees of simplicity.

You can say, ELI5 (like the Explain Like I'm 5 years old Subreddit), or explain it like a child, or explain it in very simple English (which is like Simple English wikipedia).

It is actually going to be the greatest learning tool, but only for people that genuinely want to learn.

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