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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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359 points FromTheArchives | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.26s | source
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oceanhaiyang ◴[18 Sep 25 19:08 UTC] No.45293700[source]▶
No one who understands ai can rely on it to help us learn. I provided one with 100 citations I wanted to standardize and it deleted 10 and made up 10 to replace them. Can’t imagine this being used to replace a textbook or even explain a textbook.
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criddell ◴[18 Sep 25 19:17 UTC] No.45293802[source]▶
> explain a textbook

I've had very good luck using LLMs to do this. I paste the part of the book that I don't understand and ask questions about it.

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bigfishrunning ◴[18 Sep 25 19:28 UTC] No.45293911[source]▶
But the problem is, you don't understand the passage, so therefore how will you vet the answers? Seems like hallucinations would be very very damaging in this use-case
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0xEF ◴[18 Sep 25 19:36 UTC] No.45294006[source]▶
I was in the middle of typing the same question. This is the part that worries me about Generative AI; far too many people seem to have forgotten that its prone to confabulation and telling the user what they want to hear.
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1. criddell ◴[18 Sep 25 20:05 UTC] No.45294310[source]▶
Sure, but if the LLM tells you the jump from step 2 to 3 in a calculus problem is the use of l'hopital's rule, you should be able to figure out pretty quickly if it's a red herring or not.