alt Hacker News> AI doesn’t provide directions, it navigates for you.
LLMs (try to) give you what you're asking for. If you ask for directions, you'll get something that resembles that, if you ask it to 100% navigate, that's what you get.
> and this paper demonstrates that people are likely to take answers for granted.
Could you point out where exactly this is demonstrated in this paper? As far as I can tell from the study, people who used ChatGPT for the studying did better than the ones that didn't, with no different in knowledge retention.
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amrocha • 01/21/2025
Page 18 first paragraph, it talks about how ChatGPT users engaged less with the editing process compared to other methods. Sorry, copy and paste isn’t working for some reason.
> Could you point out where exactly this is demonstrated in this paper? As far as I can tell from the study, people who used ChatGPT for the studying did better than the ones that didn't, with no different in knowledge retention.
This is what I observed as well. For the "metacognitive laziness" bit they had to point to other studies.