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fujiyamasan

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12. Have these tools improved at all over the course of your time at school?

Reply to Sympthsical (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 23, 2026, 12:35 AM

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I’m not familiar with SherpathAI so I just looked it up. I’m assuming it’s trained specifically on the content of your books… or the general curriculum?

I could see some uses for this (just for general assistance or a study tool) but the false sense of confidence it generates concerns me.

And doctors used to complain about Dr google!

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