Recently a new philosophy of parenting has been emerging, which can be termed “vibe parenting” and describes a novel method for the individual parent to circumvent an inability to answer the sporadic yet profound questions their children raise by directing them to ask ChatGPT.
My parents, 40 years ago, would say "look it up", either in the dictionary, or the 1959 encyclopedia set we had. With my kids i never told them to look something up in the literal dictionary, but i would tell them to look at wikipedia or "google it". Not about profound questions, though; although a definition of "profound questions" might jog a memory. We do look things up in an etymology dictionary (i have 5 or 6) sometimes, though.
I am not sure why my parents constantly told me to look things up in a dictionary.
Rarely, but it did happen, we'd have to take a trip to the library to look something up. Now, instead of digging in a card catalog or asking a librarian, and then thumbing through reference books, i can ask an LLM to see if there's even information plausibly available before dedicating any more time to "looking something up."
As i've been saying lately, i use copilot to see if my memory is failing.
