It's actually worse than that because although LLMs are capable of a lot, they still hallucinate quite frequently and sometimes are just plain stupid.
Recently I was trying to manipulate data in Google Sheets and was using ChatGPT to help. In the beginning is was fantastic, I was very productive because I didn't have to stop and think about formulas, read crappy documentation, or analyze data transformation. ChatGPT just gave me the right answer in a split second, as long as I kept asking the right questions.
Then I stumbled upon a particular issue that wasn't really too complicated but ChatGPT could not give me a correct answer. Unknowingly I spent 3 days trying to fix problems with the solution and every time I got an answer that was slightly wrong, not in subtle ways.
I have 20 years experience as a software engineer and still, I continued to waste time in this loop. After 3 days I decided to apply my engineering skills and solved the matter in 30 min. Now I know the solution and it was way simpler than I thought.
What surprised me was how dumb the whole process was. My questions certainly weren't the problem - as bad as they possibly were, the solution wasn't too far off. Not only ChatGPT had become a crutch but it put me in a situation that no human-tutor would ever put me.
So removing the pain of quick interactions with a tutor has benefits but the technology is not quite ready to be considered as true guidance in forming (or even helping) someone's understanding of a subject.
I've been using ChatGPT a lot for general language but when it requires logical thinking it falls pretty flat.
Recently I was trying to manipulate data in Google Sheets and was using ChatGPT to help. In the beginning is was fantastic, I was very productive because I didn't have to stop and think about formulas, read crappy documentation, or analyze data transformation. ChatGPT just gave me the right answer in a split second, as long as I kept asking the right questions.
Then I stumbled upon a particular issue that wasn't really too complicated but ChatGPT could not give me a correct answer. Unknowingly I spent 3 days trying to fix problems with the solution and every time I got an answer that was slightly wrong, not in subtle ways.
I have 20 years experience as a software engineer and still, I continued to waste time in this loop. After 3 days I decided to apply my engineering skills and solved the matter in 30 min. Now I know the solution and it was way simpler than I thought.
What surprised me was how dumb the whole process was. My questions certainly weren't the problem - as bad as they possibly were, the solution wasn't too far off. Not only ChatGPT had become a crutch but it put me in a situation that no human-tutor would ever put me.
So removing the pain of quick interactions with a tutor has benefits but the technology is not quite ready to be considered as true guidance in forming (or even helping) someone's understanding of a subject.
I've been using ChatGPT a lot for general language but when it requires logical thinking it falls pretty flat.