Yup, ChatGPT is not just a parrot but a master troll. It's purposely designed to give you a convincing answer, but there's nothing to ensure that it will be correct. And it will promptly say "actually I can't answer that question" when you ask it something it doesn't like for 'ethical' reasons, but it won't do that in any other circumstance; instead, it will just make stuff up. You have to explicitly say "please don't answer if you aren't sure it's right" and even then obviously it doesn't always work.
Try ChatGPT4. It's obvious that almost no one in this thread has.
It still screws up, but unlike 3.5 it sometimes catches unreasonable answers and corrects itself. Case in point: the other day I asked it for the gain of a helical antenna with certain dimensions. It said "150 dBi," then said, basically, "Wait, no, that's nuts," and used a different approach to get the right answer.
Parrots don't do that. If yours does, I would like to buy your parrot, please.
In any case, as you learn to ask it the right questions to explain, verify and correct itself interactively, you will be learning the material. I find this to be amazingly effective.
I agree! Especially now that the data analysis tools have been integrated by default. It even writes and executes code to validate most of its mathy answers. I tried for a few months to find a good Physics tutor for my high school-aged daughter and eventually just started photographing her homework with GPT-4. I’d ask it to solve the problems and explain its solution to me, then I’d check the answers and teach her myself. It was correct more than 90% of the time over three months, and I relearned high school physics in the process. Even human tutors aren’t always accurate, and in my experience, they also sound confident when they are wrong. Eventually, I decided to just remove the monkey from the machine and got her an account of her own. Almost every day she tells me about something she “finally understands” that she’s been struggling with in class. Her in-class, no-access-to-GPT test scores (after I got her the account) went from high 50s to high 80s.
