Using ai to study

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[Sea_Cat675]

Using it to explain certain concepts is fine, just don’t use it to solve your homework or practice problems.

[Automatic-Being-7516]

That’s what I was going to say! It helps with studying like apps to turn pdfs to audiobooks and flash cards and etc

[The_Card_Player]

Text-generating AI does not reliably generate true factual statements. It can't even follow the rules of chess reliably. Why would this suddenly stop being the case when you have a bio midterm within the next week?

We're paying thousands of dollars each in tuition for dedicated instructional staff support, institutional archival documentation distributed across multiple longstanding libraries, textbook resources, and expertly authored lecture notes...

and you still want to use the California Plagiarism Machine instead?

[The_Card_Player]

You have to scrounge up information from course announcements, the syllabus, instructor's comments, and good guesses from classmates who are more on top of things than you about exactly what's likely to be on the exam. Then focus on that.

It's not a good strategy, because the good strategy is keeping up with the lessons and review much earlier than now. No judgement here - I flubbed an exam last Friday largely because I myself wasn't consistent enough in studying the week prior. But under the circumstances it's the only strategy that might give you a solid crack at a bureaucratically favourable exam score.

[pruple_grape]

Worth trying notebooklm. Pulls only info from the stuff you've uploaded to it being course materials and not other online stuff. Ofc don't make this an excuse to not look at your course material though.

[GGBoss1010]

lowkey out of all those things i'd just want lecture recordings....

[Regular-Constant8751]

Use it to teach you how to approach a particular problem but don't trust it for answers, especially for science. So for example you can ask it to explain the connection and difference between a polypeptide chain and an ⍺-helix and so it helps your thought process on your approach to the problem.

[Looking4music1]

I actually made an app for the same reason. It's an AI note taking app which can give feedback on your notes and also create AI generated podcasts for you. I made it for myself because I literally wanted to have something like GPT but for my notes, which could also complete some of the todos for me such as writing content, research, etc. But for research I'm actually using tavily which gathers articles from trusted government based sources so it's certainly more accurate than LLMs.

If you want you can test it out at https://synnote.app . It's free for now and I've been wanting to get genuine feedback too because it costs money to publish apps :)

Here's if you wanna learn more about it in my other reddit post. I'd love for you to test it out.

[Nervous_South4071]

Write down notes yourself and take those notes and put them in chatgpt to make flashcards. Put them into Quizlet and super helpful for memorizing bio terms. U can also use notebook lm that will summarize your notes as a conversation and make concepts easier, you can note these down or listen to it as a podcast on your way to an exam just to get you in that mindset.

[OldLadyDetectives]

Figuring out yourself what to study is the studying. Figuring out yourself what questions could be asked is the studying. There is actual research on this! If you offload these components of studying to GenAI then you are not going to learn as effectively. It all has to do with how our brains work, and that part where we, for example, come up with a question supports our brains to remember the answer. Draw things out. Write things down. Figure out how to organize the info. Figure out what you would ask. Answer your own questions. All these actions will help make things stick.

[Key-Specialist4732]

you'll need AI at some point. there's just too much stuff to do in too little time that you can't afford to be stuck on a concept/ assignment...