I guess at some level this is almost what "prompt engineering" is (though I really hate that term), but I use it as a learning tool and I do think it's been really good at helping me cement concepts in my brain.
I guess at some level this is almost what "prompt engineering" is (though I really hate that term), but I use it as a learning tool and I do think it's been really good at helping me cement concepts in my brain.
Interesting, that's the basic process I follow myself when learning without ChatGPT. Comparing my mental representation of the thing I'm learning to existing literature/results, finding the disconnects between the two, reworking my understanding, wash rinse repeat.
It can be hard for me to directly figure out when my mental model is wrong on something. I'm sure it happens all the time, but a lot of the time I will think I know something until I feel compelled to prove it to someone, and I'll often find out that I'm wrong.
That's actually happened a bunch of times with ChatGPT, where I think it's wrong until I actually interrogate it, look up a credible source, and realize that my understanding was incorrect.