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In September 2024, I returned to university to study for a part-time bachelor’s in philosophy.
My decision was motivated by my interest in going back to school and by the development of LLMs such as ChatGPT.
I wanted to see if AI could help me study faster and with less effort. If yes, getting an additional degree would be worth it.
I enrolled in a general course on the history of philosophy and quietly sat in class, recording every lecture and paying attention instead of taking notes.
To prepare for the exam, I pasted the recordings into TurboScribe then summarized them with ChatGPT to find out the main concepts the professor was interested in.
I didn’t read any of the 14 texts we had to prepare for the exam but fed them to ChatGPT and DeepSeek, emphasizing that these were exam material.
I then merged the summary of the transcript with the summaries of the texts and built my own AI syllabus. It was 119 pages and took me one evening to finish (my Internet connection was super slow).
I read the corpus several times five days before the exam. Instead of dumbly memorizing it, I built the knowledge dynamically by engaging with…
