> If you don't know the subject, how can you be sure what it's telling you is true?
People are reading too much into the comment. You wouldn't use ChatGPT to become as knowledgeable as obtaining a PhD. The idea is "If I wanted to ask an expert something, I have easy access to one now."
The real questions are:
1. For a given domain, how much more/less accurate is ChatGPT?
2. How available are the PhDs?
It makes sense to accept a somewhat lower accuracy if they are 10 times more available than a real PhD - you'll still learn a lot more, even though you also learn more wrong things. I'll take a ChatGPT that is accurate 80% of the times and is available all day and night vs a PhD who is accurate 90% of the times but I get only 30 minutes with him per week.
People are reading too much into the comment. You wouldn't use ChatGPT to become as knowledgeable as obtaining a PhD. The idea is "If I wanted to ask an expert something, I have easy access to one now."
The real questions are:
1. For a given domain, how much more/less accurate is ChatGPT?
2. How available are the PhDs?
It makes sense to accept a somewhat lower accuracy if they are 10 times more available than a real PhD - you'll still learn a lot more, even though you also learn more wrong things. I'll take a ChatGPT that is accurate 80% of the times and is available all day and night vs a PhD who is accurate 90% of the times but I get only 30 minutes with him per week.