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).

Welcome to Lemmy! Ignore the jerk in the corner.

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

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.

If not, then…

Do not worry

It’ll be ok