Answer to: Does AI help people learn faster, or just help them skip learning?

Just like a good Google search algorithm if you provide the right keywords. And when you find too little breadcrumbs, there's StackOverflow. That's how I did it before LLMs and when searching was not enough, I'd ask questions (fortunately in my case, most of what I wanted to know was already answered on SO). even when completely wrong and hallucinated When it nonchalantly presents made up things as facts due to a hallucination, you can hardly call that a motivation (since you're wasting time on a false trail). Now I know what you generally mean, but until it will reach the point where it can at least learn to read and understand (even without nuances, irony, sarcasm, jokes, etc., just literally), it is not something to be considered reliable. Having said that, I do admit I agree with your point that when it DOES manage to give you something on-point, it does help to get you started at times as its context dissection is a lot faster than what it would take you to find and extract the needed information if you had the same links/books as sources. But to me, Perplexity is the closest to what LLMs with browsing features can do: being very good information aggregators. Still, I will give kudos to ChatGPT and Claude when it comes to coding. I'd lie if I said I wasn't impressed with just the concept of text-to-code even if the quality is not amazing.