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How HN took it
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 3 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for learning unfamiliar topics and seeing what to explore
From 3 comments
Valid point, however, I personally believe that the questions generated hold greater significance as they provide direction in terms of what to explore in a particular subject…
Mamadou_H on HNthis particular use of LLM could prove helpful in the sense that it shows you what to look for in a given subject matter. The generated answer can easily be verified.
Mamadou_H on HNThis is freaking sick! Really cool use of ai to democratize higher level education.
MrLaheyyy on HN
Objections
Generated content can't be trusted without verification
From 3 comments
Sounds like you reinvented Wikipedia's "Simple English" pages, but in a way that can't be trusted very much.
amelius on HNIf you don't have any background in a topic, then how do you know it is getting it right? You don't know enough to know if you can trust any given response. Either you have to…
humanistbot on HNYeah, no kidding. This is what LLMs are not meant for 101 -- it'll get a lot right, a solid amount of the time (spare me the anecdotes), but the idea that someone who doesn't…
thenberlin on HN
Recommending LLMs as a knowledge source is a bad use
From 1 comment
Big agree. It feels wrong to dissuade someone from building something, this is likely an exercise in creativity, but I have to say this goes on my "Bad Use of LLMs" list. Sure,…
jszymborski on HN
Sudoku explanation looked inaccurate
From 1 comment
First page I clicked was the Computer Science...Sudoku page. Really?: At each step of the recursion, you try out all of the available options, and as soon as one of them leads to…
empdee on HN
Requests
Add references or sources, like Bing Chat
From 1 comment
Re-ask questions periodically and keep answer versions
From 1 comment
I think it would be interesting if you periodically re-ask the same question maybe even to different AIs and keep all versions of answers accessible so its possible to see the…
gagabity on HN
Questions
What prompt was used?
From 1 comment
What prompt did you use?
moltar on HN
Alternatives named
Wikipedia Simple English pages
From 1 comment
Sounds like you reinvented Wikipedia's "Simple English" pages, but in a way that can't be trusted very much.
amelius on HN
Oxford Very Short Introductions
From 1 comment
For a similar idea, but human-generated (by leading experts in the respective fields), I can recommend the Very Short Introduction series by Oxford University Press.…
globalise83 on HN