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      Sure it does. It’s a calculator and can tell me if I did my statistics homework correctly. I can also ask it to summarize a concept I find difficult.

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        No, it actually doesn’t. How LLMs work is that it takes in written words and makes a sentence based on the likelihood of what the next word will be based on human readable text. That’s literally it.

        Hence, there’s absolutely no guarantee that ChatGPT’s ‘review’ of your homework will always be 100% correct because it is probable that the answer was written incorrectly in the billions of lines of text it has been fed.

        On the other hand, a calculator has been superficially wired for it’s purpose to process an input. 1 + 1 will always equal 2.

        I’d wager your supervisor will be horrified to learn that you’re getting an LLM to learn from rather than your peers. This is why i absolutely hate that it’s being used as a substitute what essentially makes us human: art, music, research, learning etc.

        It’s a tool that needs a licence because you need to know how to use it to complement your existing skills, not supplement it.

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          We’re allowed to use them. We just have to provide the prompt used and the answer given.

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            Ah very interesting. Still, it’s a shame cutting out the peer to peer discussions to expand one’s own learning and understanding.

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              To do an in person degree I’d have to quit my job. I have been waiting for years for a program like this. That said, doing it in person would be a better experience and I wish I’d had the opportunity to do something like that years ago.

              TLDR; should have had my doctorate years ago. I went to Argentina and had to abandon my work when the economy collapsed.

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                For sure; nothing beats in person but you have to make do with what you can. I wish you the best of luck in your doctorate (from another mature age student and soon to be commencing Masters).

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        If you want a calculator, try an actual calculator or a website that actually does math like Wolfram alpha.

        A chatbot can’t actually do math. It can only give you an answer that looks right because it has no fundamental understanding of what “right” actually is.

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            How old are you and what doctorates do you have?

            We’re not in a dick-swinging contest here. At least I am not :) What a dumb way to deflect from the point I am making. If you have any understanding of the matter, you know that LLMs are only statistically accurate, and mathematically, that is useless.

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          I have a long, successful career. I am doing this program for personal growth and to create a challenge for myself. Please stop projecting your impressions on my life, I am my own person and very confident in what I have accomplished.

          Edit: I got downvoted for being confident in my successes. Really?

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            This is an echo chamber. Logical and rational thoughts will be downvoted if they go against the narrative. Don’t take it personally.

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              Yeah I didn’t realize just how deeply people were into the projected angst before now. Thank you.

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            I am not objecting to you to learn something new. The naivety is what you display assuming you can use LLMs to “check your homework”.

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        until it hallucinates

        who the fuck wants a calculator that gives out the wring answer every 5th time