Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI

You actually have likely read enough at this point to be a good prompt engineer. Let’s start with the third principle I shared earlier—treat AI like a person and tell it what kind of person it is. LLMs work by predicting the next word, or part of a word, that would come after your prompt, sort of like a sophisticated autocomplete function. Then the

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Imagine introducing high-quality AI tutors into the flipped classroom model. These AI-powered systems have the potential to significantly enhance the learning experience for students and make flipped classrooms even more effective. They provide personalized learning, where AI tutors can tailor instruction to each student’s unique needs while contin

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Cheating was already common in schools. One study of eleven years of college courses found that when students did their homework in 2008, it improved test grades for 86 percent of them, but it helped only 45 percent of students in 2017. Why? Because over half of students were looking up homework answers on the internet by 2017, so they never got th

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The Homework Apocalypse threatens a lot of good, useful types of assignments, many of which have been used in schools for centuries. We will need to adjust quickly to preserve what we are in danger of losing and to accommodate the changes AI will bring. That will take immediate effort from instructors and education leaders and clearly articulated p

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AI is trained on vast swaths of humanity’s cultural heritage, so it can often best be wielded by people who have a knowledge of that heritage. To get the AI to do unique things, you need to understand parts of the culture more deeply than everyone else using the same AI systems. So now, in many ways, humanities majors can produce some of the most i

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One solution to incorporating more active learning is by “flipping” classrooms. Students would learn new concepts at home, typically through videos or other digital resources, and then apply what they’ve learned in the classroom through collaborative activities, discussions, or problem-solving exercises. The main idea behind flipped classrooms is t

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So how do we do it? Let’s imagine that we want to come up with 20 ideas for marketing slogans for a new mail-order cheese shop. The AI can generate those for us, but we will get even better quality if we remember the principle of telling AI who it is: You are an expert at marketing. When asked to generate slogan ideas you come up with ideas that ar

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Some were assigned to use AI and some were not. The results were nothing short of astonishing. Participants who used ChatGPT saw a dramatic reduction in their time on tasks, slashing it by a whopping 37 percent. Not only did they save time, but the quality of their work also increased as judged by other humans. These improvements were not limited t

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By the mid-1990s, calculators were part of the curriculum and were used to complement other ways of learning math. Some tests allowed them, some did not. A practical consensus was achieved. Math education did not fall apart, though debate and research continues today, a half century after the calculator appeared in classrooms.

To some extent, AI wil

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