I'm no LLM fanboy and I do know about their issues and shortcomings.
I also think that asking the right questions to a model while following a lecture, assessing its answers and integrating them into one's own reasoning is difficult. There is certainly a minimum age/experience level under which this process will generally fail, possibly hindering the learning outcome.
Nevertheless, I saw with my own eyes a mid-level student significantly improving his understanding of a difficult topic because he had access to a LLM in real time. I believe this is a breakthrough. Time will tell.
I don't know, seeming 'conversationally smarter' when having access to a language model is much different from just looking stuff up and pattern matching answers?
I'm afraid these models are making people sound smarter and feel smarter without any actual gains in real world problem solving skills.
I also think that asking the right questions to a model while following a lecture, assessing its answers and integrating them into one's own reasoning is difficult. There is certainly a minimum age/experience level under which this process will generally fail, possibly hindering the learning outcome.
Nevertheless, I saw with my own eyes a mid-level student significantly improving his understanding of a difficult topic because he had access to a LLM in real time. I believe this is a breakthrough. Time will tell.