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If you start digging into new topics lets say shaders or art history or whatever .. its hands down the best tool and teacher i ever had. You can get a broad overview over topics and repeat asking „stupid“ questions which are either hard to find on the net or you would not dare to ask anyone. I think these downplaying comments are kind of embarrassing for this kind of achievement in technology.

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I'm curious about these "stupid" questions that are hard to find answers to on the net but an LLM can answer. Could you give an example?

For me the most significant help it gave was when learning shaders. Of course there is a large amount of tutorials but i am the type of person who has a hard time learning in a linear way if there a unclear points open (which perhaps are solved some chapters later). This type of conquering much ground by asking many questions is perfect for me and it was the first time i did not immediately gave up on shaders after two hours or so.

Curious how you can even tell the llm result is correct when you are apparently unable to validate it with other methods

I am not unable to validate. Its just hard to get answers to specific questions. Once you have the answer and the corresponding vocabulary its not hard to find by web search.

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