https://substack.com/home/post/p-156638952
"But with the introduction of ChatGPT to our benighted society, I realised that we’d been gifted a powerful life hack to paper over these pesky gaps. Now, a question can be posed with the utmost specificity; you needn’t leaf through some weighty tome to sound like less of a Burke among your erudite smart aleck friends. While they're quaffing wine and chortling away, you can abscond for a discreet bathroom break, but instead of expelling waste, you’ll be absorbing invaluable, dignity-saving info. ChatGPT can spew out answers tailor-made for your ignorance."
Humorous piece about using ChatGPT to make yourself seem more knowledgeable
byu/77kibby77 inFuturology
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Will we all just become equally knowledgeable or equally ignorant?
Surely that should be ‘berk’ the British slang term, rather than ‘Burke’, the surname (among others) of an 18th century philosopher and statesman.
There’s a lot of room between know nothing and expert on any given topic and most of us fall somewhere between the two on most stuff so if you learn new and accurate things about a topic you *are* more knowledgeable. LLM isn’t a less valid way to learn. But it is funny how over the top they are even if you tell them to make it less AI and more conversational human.