# AI assisted learning

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-assisted-learning/1020183>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 27, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-assisted-learning/1020183 "2025-06-27T03:58:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-assisted-learning/1020183/1 "2025-06-27T03:58:31Z")

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I asked AI today if it could teach me how to run a cad style program. It told me it had no experience but is very good at reading directions and can probably walk me through it. This for me would be a world changer if it actually works.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-assisted-learning/1020183/2 "2025-06-27T04:37:32Z")

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I’ve used it to deepen my basic knowledge of Logic (a music production software program for the Mac.) It has worked out very well for me, faster than going through a bunch of YouTube tutorials to try to figure out how to do something very specific. It wasn’t perfect, but I was able to work around its imperfections by telling it what wasn’t working and giving it screenshots of my problems. YouTube was still useful when I had more time and was looking for general knowledge or wanted to see how someone approached a certain concept.

Overall, I think it can be a good aid if you know how to use AI and understand its current limitations.

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-assisted-learning/1020183/3 "2025-06-27T15:23:30Z")

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For something like this I consider AI to be a Google search on steroids. It can find the info you need pretty quickly and give a decent answer. But, you still need to read the directions.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-assisted-learning/1020183/4 "2025-06-27T18:18:24Z")

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I’ve found it a useful resource and sounding board for operating offline Stable Diffusion text-to-image UI’s, particularly InvokeAI. I understood almost nothing and it walked me through all the terminology and processes for doing different things. And it provides useful image feedback and prompt writing advice.

I could certainly just Google all this stuff, but ChatGPT conveniently gathers all the information on my behalf and presents it in an easy to digest conversational format.

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**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-assisted-learning/1020183/5 "2025-06-27T18:44:52Z")

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> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#):
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> It told me it had no experience but is very good at reading directions and can probably walk me through it.

This is exactly the premise of [NotebookLM](https://notebooklm.google/). You add source docs and the LLM summarizes and lets you ask questions about those docs.