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I think this is true for any domain of knowledge in ChatGPT. Its knowledge is shallow in a certain sense, but a lot of things don't require deep knowledge. Shallow knowledge generated very quickly can still be useful.

I find ChatGPT to be very useful as a source of documentation. I can ask it to summarize a certain scientific topic for me, or how to do a certain thing in the Win32 API. I'm not going to take its output at face value, but it still speeds up the process of figuring out what I should research further, what function to call, etc.




> Shallow knowledge generated very quickly can still be useful.

A great, concise summary of the idea I was grasping at. Thank you.


Come to think of it, there are entire human careers--or at least subtasks--based around the same concept.

It also describes certain forms of advertising.




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