alt Hacker NewsLearning from an LLM is nearly impossible because it has no opinions on how to structure the content.
It's great at giving you the illusion that you're learning though.
If you know an outline of the material and want to structure it your own way (ex, explain attention to me using Haskell notation) it's really great. But otherwise, human notes win.
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steezeburger • today at 4:21 PM
That is a ridiculous take. It was trained on human notes. It very much has an opinion on how to structure specific content for teaching.
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So you’re saying if I pointed an LLM, say GPT 5.6 Sol, at a PDF copy of a textbook and asked it questions about something i’m stuck on and don’t understand, it wouldn’t be able to teach me anything?
learning is not a passive activity. likewise an llm can be used in a passive or active fashion.