When Nityesh Agarwal, an engineer from Everyspent two weekends learning about special relativity with ChatgptHe did not just ask him a question. Not ten. Were More than one hundred The questions he asked until Einstein ceased to be a name in his books to become ideas that could explain to anyone in five minutes.
A software engineer, without physics training, achieved what it used to require much more regulated training time: Understand why time slows near the speed of light.
The difference was not even caused by the chosen model. In fact, He used more GPT-4o than the brand new O3 because he felt that he better understood his doubts. The difference was in your method:
- Ask until exhaustion.
- Ask for metaphors.
- Draw diagrams when it was stuck.
- Share each epiphany to confirm that you had understood.
He used the AI, in short, such as what can really be: A tutor with infinite patience that never tires of reformulating the idea from different angles until the student understands.
And there is a little commented problem: Most people use chatgpt and company like a vitaminate googlelittle else. One question, an answer, next topic. An advanced calculator, a refined translator. How to have Internet access and just use it to watch viral videos. Ahem.
Nityesh discovered that the bottleneck of personalized learning is not so much the intelligence of the machine and the patience and insistence of the student. AI can teach anything to anyone. But it requires that we be as obsessive as Nityesh during those two weekends.
And so he is born A new self -taught class: People who understand that after the Internet, AI is its second great revolution.
If the Internet democratized access to knowledge, LLMS They democratize access to personalized teaching. Some people make them more vague. Others make them unstoppable.
The advantage is no longer to have access to information, but in the ability to ask the right questions and have the patience to continue asking until everything fit.
Nityesh has demonstrated it In comic strips.
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