Good read. I like the Master / Apprentice model. I like using chat agents to assist with research and provide writing prompts. I also use it to check style and grammar edits. The agent remembers my previous sessions and makes suggestions for content, using my voice.
“I study with it”. This requires some amount of caution and preexisting knowledge of the topic under study. Warning: the knowledge gained *will* be incomplete and may cause you to make overstatements and/or come to false conclusions. Ask me how I know.
There are some efficiency gains using AI but I have not had even one session where several iterations weren’t required to produce meaningful output. Then that output required scrubbing to get rid of the slop. I’m not a professional writer, teacher or philosopher so the iterations, even when there are a lot of them, are faster than starting from scratch. I wonder if that’s true for someone who is a professional or academic.
About a year ago, I went through a period of time when I frequently asked Microsoft's AI to recognize obscure music if I gave it a musical phrase or topic. It's helped me pick out movies to watch on Prime Video. It led me to SNOWPIERCER and to DARK CITY (new movies I would compare to the best of Bogart's); but then I got a MacBook and lost interest in it. Will it eventually create a language that only other computers understand and end up making all future political and economic decisions? I think so. The fact that a sad percentage of current college students use the tool for theft of a diploma is tragic; but it pales in comparison to a silicon-based life-force having all the carbon-based creatures under its control.
A nice article Mr. Millerman, considering the recent insufferable turn that politics (particularly politics)* has taken, I look forward to a new higher intelligence silicon based life form ruling over us all, relieving us of our prefrontal burden. I for one, welcome our new silicon overlord. Perhaps, there is some elucidation that can be done about the ‘post political’ or ‘the end of mass movement politics’, now there is an interesting conversation that not enough have been having.
Good read. I like the Master / Apprentice model. I like using chat agents to assist with research and provide writing prompts. I also use it to check style and grammar edits. The agent remembers my previous sessions and makes suggestions for content, using my voice.
“I study with it”. This requires some amount of caution and preexisting knowledge of the topic under study. Warning: the knowledge gained *will* be incomplete and may cause you to make overstatements and/or come to false conclusions. Ask me how I know.
There are some efficiency gains using AI but I have not had even one session where several iterations weren’t required to produce meaningful output. Then that output required scrubbing to get rid of the slop. I’m not a professional writer, teacher or philosopher so the iterations, even when there are a lot of them, are faster than starting from scratch. I wonder if that’s true for someone who is a professional or academic.
About a year ago, I went through a period of time when I frequently asked Microsoft's AI to recognize obscure music if I gave it a musical phrase or topic. It's helped me pick out movies to watch on Prime Video. It led me to SNOWPIERCER and to DARK CITY (new movies I would compare to the best of Bogart's); but then I got a MacBook and lost interest in it. Will it eventually create a language that only other computers understand and end up making all future political and economic decisions? I think so. The fact that a sad percentage of current college students use the tool for theft of a diploma is tragic; but it pales in comparison to a silicon-based life-force having all the carbon-based creatures under its control.
A nice article Mr. Millerman, considering the recent insufferable turn that politics (particularly politics)* has taken, I look forward to a new higher intelligence silicon based life form ruling over us all, relieving us of our prefrontal burden. I for one, welcome our new silicon overlord. Perhaps, there is some elucidation that can be done about the ‘post political’ or ‘the end of mass movement politics’, now there is an interesting conversation that not enough have been having.
*See what I did there? Haha!