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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The problem is that this doesn't work if you don't know the subject matter already. You can't tell the facts from the inevitable hallucinations.
A possible mitigation might be to ask the same question in different phrasings multiple times, and ideally ask different models, to distill the truth that way. But I'm not sure you still save any time, that might actually take longer than just learning the old-fashioned way. Plus you don't learn how to learn, so it's a net negative.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    ask the same question in different phrasings multiple times

    When I've tried that, I often get different answers.

    Or when I try testing the answer with followup questions etc, it eventually devolves to nonsense.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    That's why I called it a mitigation, not a solution. Also n may need to be rather big for this approach to work and it might only have a chance of succeeding if the context up to that point is as similar as you can make it.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    What if you are not capable of learning the material on your own? Then it’s just tough luck.

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