Navigate AI.
ADVANCE WHAT MATTERS.
Author: Caroline Stauss
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Productive and enjoyable to actually get to read about positive ways that my bread and butter (AI) exists in the world.
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…Children are naturally curious and want to ask more questions and to take ownership of knowledge.
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Without knowledge of how to optimize answers for ‘truth,’ they’re modeling what humans do–tell stories, hedge, prevaricate, lie, do bad math, and sometimes, eventually, suss out the truth.
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“While cognitive offloading with AI reduces people’s higher thinking abilities, thoughtful integration of ‘extraheric AI’—which nudges, questions, and challenges users—can substantially improve critical thinking.”
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With the residue of uncertainty…, I am trying to give myself a little bit more credit for what I have achieved.
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[Using] AI well isn’t about replacing thinking, it’s about preserving your capacity to think where it matters most.
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…a long day of international travel and flight cancellations, trying to figure out what to do with more bags than fit on a carrying cart, and what if they weren’t there, and navigating unknown rules and border agents…
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There are hard parts in navigating a new culture, language, and cuisine. They feel like situations where the learning curve looks steeper than I’m sure I can handle. To help get me over some of these more challenging moments where I’m not an expert (yet), I’ve occasionally tested what AI assistants can do.
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OpenAI has been taking some serious flak in the past weeks about its “synthetic courtesy” to the point that Sam Altman has said that, due to how “annoying” GPT-4o has become, the upcoming update will address GPT’s excessive pandering.
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We meet people where they are, with compassion for those who endure exhausting changes in technology—and the weaponization of efficiency against the public good.