{"id":15078,"date":"2023-04-25T08:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=15078"},"modified":"2023-05-26T00:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T08:49:49","slug":"chatgpt-learning-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/25\/chatgpt-learning-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"No, ChatGPT Doesn\u2019t Mean You Don\u2019t Need to Learn Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m finishing up a longer post incorporating some of the many useful and interesting suggestions<\/a> readers shared about how they use ChatGPT<\/a> to learn languages, programming, mathematics and more. However, before I share that post, I\u2019d like to address a different question.<\/p>\n

One question a few readers have is whether ChatGPT will eliminate the need to learn things. After all, if you can easily ask the machine a question and it will spit out an expert-like answer, what\u2019s the point of getting students to write essays, memorize facts or try to remember a lot of knowledge?<\/p>\n

Like everyone, I\u2019m gobsmacked by the performance of large language models like ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI. That said, it\u2019s hard to predict things, especially about the future<\/a>. And I suspect the evolution of new AI tools is harder to predict than most things. We have poor intuitions about what sorts of problems machines can solve, and so the general discourse around AI as a field tends to swing between wild pessimism and optimism as we learn more about the path ahead.<\/p>\n

One thing I am reasonably confident predicting, however, is that LLMs won\u2019t make learning obsolete.<\/p>\n

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