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jerftoday at 1:51 PM1 replyview on HN

This is probably a reasonable example of a case where an AI can really help out as an endlessly patient assistant to answer your personal questions in a conversational format.

It is possible it may get something wrong but as long as you keep beating on the wrongness you should eventually be able to work out what it is, and in its own way that would become possibly the best learning exercise there is. And of course, with the math proofs coming through from AIs lately, I wouldn't guarantee you'll see that much wrong stuff. I expect it would be at a low enough rate to keep you learning... after all, anyone who has had serious math education knows the human teachers aren't always completely correct either and there is the occasional impromptu exercise of everyone staring at the board and trying to figure out what went wrong with the demonstration.


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js8today at 2:46 PM

Yes, maybe.. I read it like a decade ago though, the AI didn't exist then. Although my current interest in triage and lambda calculus is also fueled by AI.