AIs are good at explaining simple things, and not very good at thinking about how large concepts fit together.
For me there was a good example of this in the provided demonstration section, the phrase “Bayesian reinforcement learning” generated the following hilariously redundant explanation:
A learning approach that combines Bayesian inference with reinforcement learning to handle uncertainty in decision-making. It’s mentioned here as part of the ‘standard model’ of ideal agency, alongside AIXI.
I am well aware that this is simply a demonstration for illustrative purposes and not meant to be representative of what the actual generated explanations will be like.
This is an exciting feature! Although these generated explanations remind me an awful lot of the frustration and lost productivity I experience trying to comprehend STEM terms and the long Wikipedia hopping from a term to another term to explain it; I think with better explanations it could solve part of that frustration and lost productivity. I often find STEM jargon impenetrable and find myself looking for ELI5 posts of a term used in a description of a term, used in the description of the thing I’m trying to directly learn about.
For me there was a good example of this in the provided demonstration section, the phrase “Bayesian reinforcement learning” generated the following hilariously redundant explanation:
I am well aware that this is simply a demonstration for illustrative purposes and not meant to be representative of what the actual generated explanations will be like.
This is an exciting feature! Although these generated explanations remind me an awful lot of the frustration and lost productivity I experience trying to comprehend STEM terms and the long Wikipedia hopping from a term to another term to explain it; I think with better explanations it could solve part of that frustration and lost productivity. I often find STEM jargon impenetrable and find myself looking for ELI5 posts of a term used in a description of a term, used in the description of the thing I’m trying to directly learn about.