Hey Danny! I'm surprised you were able to find me through Bluesky! Nice Job! Yeah, I'd love to get together. I'm in Seattle until September, but I just set it in my calendar to message you when I'm back in town. Hope we can link up!

That's fine if the person is not a voter.

If they are a voter then they control our collective future as much as you do.

Taking time to speak to other voters is good game theory

Fair enough, I concede GPT misled me here. Perhaps it is worse with history than I thought.

Another problem might be my leading question, "Was paros abandoned due to piracy in the 1600s?"

Either way, I will trust it much less in the future.

Experts will give better answers than LLMs, but professors only reply to cold-emailed questions <50% in my experience.

LLMs give instant answers and are always accessible via internet. Not an end-all-be-all, but another great tool for learning!

And not all papers can be found in the local library!

Feeble analogy. Some things are better than others.

iPhone has more capabilities than a flip phone. GPT is more capable than Gemini. Grok3 might be better than both.

Source?

Sure, if you are a full-time academic then read all day. Perhaps that is why we have such different perspectives.

I am a full-time software dev. The LLMs give me working code, speeding up my workflow. In the spare time I have to explore curiosities, they speed up my learning.

Yeah, Gemini sucks. You gotta judge the models individually though.

They are improving quickly. There is room for improvement across the board.

But I did not block you sarah, nor anyone else. Not sure if I am the "he" you are referring to.

I was blocked by the original poster under which we were talking earlier, and a couple of the people I was talking to, too.

Pretty strange! Not used to getting blocked

It's similar to a librarian or a search engine. Ask a question and then for sources, and you get a pretty good starting place for research.

Example: chatgpt.com/share/67b4fc...

It would be hard to get a person to give this much of an answer, and they would not be as fast.

Yes, it's best to ask for links to sources so that you can go read the original. In this way, GPT is best used in the same way as Wikipedia.

Montessori is the way

It's okay to not be convinced! No need to mute, sorry if I'm annoying.

Wikipedia is great too! And it is risky business to trust AI blindly, as your example shows.

Tools can be used well or poorly, and for good or bad.

AI-literacy means knowing how to use AI well. It will rise over time!

There is no human that I could have asked that would have given such a thorough set of links and responded as quickly to these questions as GPT:

chatgpt.com/share/67b4b2...

Not enough information to write a research paper, but the best way to scratch a curiosity and be a bit more knowledgeable.