In a discussion about LLMs and their impact on learning, gchamonlive writes on Hackernews:
We can finally just take a photo of a textbook problem that has no answer reference and no discussion about it and prompt an LLM to help us understand what’s missing in our understanding of the problem, if our solution is plausible and how we could verify it.
LLM changed nothing though. It’s just boosting people’s intention. If your intention is to learn, you are in luck! It’s never been easier to teach yourself some skill for free. But if you just want to be a poser and fake it until you make it, you are gonna be brainrot waaaay faster than usual.
I wholeheartedly agree with this take. While internet forums are full of arguments on benefits and dangers of LLMs on various aspects of human life including learning, from a personal point of view it’s a waste of resources and opportunities if we don’t make use of the recent advancements in LLMs to learn. It can be a new language (I’m getting LLMs’ help to learn Dutch these days), a technical skill, or many other things.