From communications to small details to grocery shopping, there’s plenty of ways for AI to help you with everyday tasks.
When working with AI, it’s helpful to think of it as an intern in its first week. In the capacity of scriptwriting, AI would be an intern in their first week with an uncanny unconsciousness of their resonance with the human experience.
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.
[Using] AI well isn’t about replacing thinking, it’s about preserving your capacity to think where it matters most.
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.
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.
…a nice balance of enthusiasm and skepticism for AI risks, digestibility, timeliness, and humanity…
What I decided to share this week with LM was a synthesis of some of our key documents: our Mission, Vision, and Values statement, a thoughtfully redacted version of our business plan (we still aim for transparency whenever possible), and Dan’s first blog post—the one where he reveals what inspired the foundation of our company.
Other times, I might use GenAI to help clarify ideas, proofread, and especially outline.