There’s a saying I love.
When in doubt go to the source
I remember reading books as a kid, I’ve loved reading them. Then came the digital revolution when i got my first nokia phone.
I cane across Wikipedia. It was so awesome. It then became my source. It was not as perfect as the books but now I could read what someone rephrased based on the book if I wanted to know about the book’s summary (roughly). It made me more knowledgeable (or so I feel). As the content I needed to explore became vast, I relied on Wikipedia and other summary based services to learn about topics quickly. And in doing so, I was deviating from the source.
But as the time flew by, ChatGPT became a thing. And it has replaced Wikipedia completely for me. Or googling to learn about new topics and lan…
There’s a saying I love.
When in doubt go to the source
I remember reading books as a kid, I’ve loved reading them. Then came the digital revolution when i got my first nokia phone.
I cane across Wikipedia. It was so awesome. It then became my source. It was not as perfect as the books but now I could read what someone rephrased based on the book if I wanted to know about the book’s summary (roughly). It made me more knowledgeable (or so I feel). As the content I needed to explore became vast, I relied on Wikipedia and other summary based services to learn about topics quickly. And in doing so, I was deviating from the source.
But as the time flew by, ChatGPT became a thing. And it has replaced Wikipedia completely for me. Or googling to learn about new topics and landing on a webpage on the topic that someone prepared for people like me after studying the topic.
Such is life. Knowledge becomes more broader, more accessible and in doing so becomes more error-prone. But such is the cost of scale of learning.