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Is this all bad?

The conversational model of learning, the dialectic, can be better for learning than just reading walls of text.

Instant access to a lot of information, in a more conversational model. I've found it to be more natural.

Are we reaching the stage where every kid has a "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from the Diamond Age? That would be a good thing.

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If they can solve the hallucination problem, sure. Otherwise we're going to have a lot of people who "know" things about the world that are simply made up.

That is and always has been the status quo. The question is if proportionally more or less is made up now. People may be able to learn more true facts thanks to LLMs.

I think "LLMs hallucinate facts less often than people" is a strong stance to take at the moment.

Was going to say it was getting better. But all the articles I could find said GPT-4o was worse than previous versions.

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