Something Disturbing Happens When You "Learn" Something With ChatGPT

[rog]

12. I have been using Google's 'NotebookLM', I think with good results.

I do the research myself, *without* AI assistance, then once I have read, listened to, watched, etc, all the sources, NotebookLM is pretty darn good at creating summaries in various formats based only on the data I've supplied. i.e., It never strays from the data I've already found and linked as a source. It can create an alphanumeric outline of key points, create technical reports or reports directed to lay people ... and all of this can be edited if you should find some discrepancies or if you find some things are left out or glossed over.

Edited to add that you can use Google search operators like 'site:' to limit your search to mostly reliable sources. For example, 'site:.edu' restricts your search to academic websites. 'site:.edu OR site:.gov' gives results only from university sites or government sites, such as nih.gov, if you're looking for studies or papers. I've prompted ChatGPT to do that, but for one reason or another, it cannot. NOTE: Actually, I have to take that back. Recently I did use ChatGPT, but prompted it to use 'only peer reviewed academic sources', and some good stuff did come back, with annotations that I could follow up.

I've been using NotebookLM to help me create profiles of my doctor appointments. You can upload an mp3 file of the visit, and NotebookLM can do a pretty darn good (not perfect) word-for-word transcription that you can follow along as you listen back. The summaries it creates are pretty spot on ... and you can upload a pdf of the doctor's summary and include that as a second source to get a more complete overview.

I still think 'artificial intelligence' is an oxymoron, but I think computers can be useful as long as they're used as a tool which is under the user's complete control. I would *never* trust AI to do my digging for me, unless it's something really mundane, like what is my city's building code for repairing my porch steps, which just tells me where to look.