ai powers most of my learning these days. during my 1h walk a day i get ai to read articles and papers to me. I occasionally stop to talk to chatgpt and ask questions about certain topics. What a bizarre future we’re in.
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You are not alone my friend 🫡
The future is here
Ah! So that’s what the crazy dude in the park is doing as he nods and mutters to himself. 😂
how do you queue up what it reads to you?
are you getting a quality responses? Do you check them or consider them true, since you know it's all knowing AI...lol
I can’t imagine 2050s
My GF calls chatGPT my best friend, because I'm always talking to it.
I was actually just asking it about some camera settings that I need to optimise 😂
Don’t forget to fact check otherwise there is a good chance you’re learning a thing that does not exist ;)
Happens with humans too who make shit up
I tried to learn Kotlin with Copilot. It invents random syntax and imaginary libraries. I end up reading a book in couple of evenings and googled afterword. It was much faster for me.
I don’t understand argument “humans also just predict next symbol in their speech”. It only part of our brain does that and for efficiency only. You didn’t used that part of your brain to optimize your new app, right? Why you rely on it while learning?
I must confess... I find myself reading Brave Search's Leo AI summaries a lot lately.
+1
TIL lol🤯
I enjoy my walks in silence or conversation with the live of my life.
Riding on the train though, I'm all in on using tech ...
What is the best free AI app in general?
Where/how do you find/select interesting papers to read?
How can you tell if the AI isn't hallucinating in these matters? It might be okay for summarizing texts, but for everything else, not so much.
And a dystopian one at that, thanks to AI.
This post got me curious to check it out. Not bad at all. Great for hands free learning while walking.
Any tips/tricks you could share on getting most out of it?
I have an ios lockscreen shortcut that opens chatgpt voice mode, so I can quickly jump in and ask questions. I switch between that, speechify, podcasts and audio books. Now that i figured out speechify can read pdfs as well, i am going to start adding some papers to my listening queue.
Im always curious about new things i learn and how they are related to other concepts i recently learned. LLMs are good at making comparisons to things due to the way they are structured as a knowledge compression algo, and they are only going to get better as they get bigger:
https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis
At least thats the hypothesis at the moment
What are using to read articles and papers to you during your walk.
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/speechify-text-to-speech-audio/id1209815023
I was quite surprised at how good the text to speech is, and the types of things it can read (blogs, pdfs). I don’t mind paying for this.
Thank you. I will give it a try on my next walk.
What tools do you use to do this?