Terence Tao on Nostr: Yesterday I attended a lecture on a topic outside of my own area of expertise - the ...
Yesterday I attended a lecture on a topic outside of my own area of expertise - the Langlands program and the cohomology of Shimura varieties - and found that it was actually quite helpful to discreetly ask some questions from a large language model during the lecture to help keep up. (A log of my questions can be found here at
https://chatgpt.com/c/67bf9fd3-193c-800e-999c-05408cfb8845 .) There is still some cultural resistance to having audience members access their computers and other devices during a lecture, but I think there is some non-trivial value in permitting this sort of augmentation of the lecture so long as it is not disruptive or distracting, and I wonder if cultural norms about this sort of assistance will evolve over time.
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