I’ve been working with so many students who turn to it as a first resort for everything. The second a problem stumps them, it’s AI. The first source for research is AI.
It’s not even about the tech, there’s just something about not wanting to learn that deeply upsets me. It’s not really something I can understand. There is no reason to avoid getting better at writing.
Having better things to do is a valid reason.
AI with search capabilities is actually helpful for that.
One of the major problems of LLMs are that they hallucinate a lot.
All that an LLM does is predict the next word.
Then ask it for the source for the search results and verify it yourself obviously
Which defeats the purpose. We could already just use a search engine ij that case, using a lot less compute power.
You still need to know what to search, ideally have some background information on the topic and the sources themselves so you know what the sources are talking about and their reputation, read through a bunch of sources to find that most or all of their content is not relevant to what you’re looking for, follow links to better sources, etc. It’s easier if you’re aiming to become an expert in something, but especially if you’re starting from scratch or it’s for a topic you’ll never tough again, AI turns a 3 hour task into a 10 minute task for the same outcome. It uses less compute power than search engines to go to a library and ask librarians for books on a topic then read those books, yet people use search engines because it’s much faster that way.
Guys this guy solved rag agents!!! Why didn’t we think to ask it to provide sources before!!!???
That’s a great question, why didn’t you? Maybe schools should teach that.
Let’s ask why and learn?