Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

We count on most terrorists and criminals to be relatively dumb, but AI may prove to boost their capabilities in dangerous ways.

It’s crucial to keep a critical eye on and treat the AI as a tool that works for you. By defining its persona, engaging in a collaborative editing process, and continually providing guidance, you can take advantage of AI as a form of collaborative co-intelligence.

AI has the potential to automate mundane tasks, freeing us for work that requires uniquely human traits such as creativity and critical thinking—or, possibly, managing and curating the AI’s creative output,

The Transformer solved these issues by utilizing an “attention mechanism.” This technique allows the AI to concentrate on the most relevant parts of a text, making it easier for the AI to understand and work with language in a way that seemed more human.

New ideas do not come from the ether; they are based on existing concepts.

prompt injection, where people use the AI’s capabilities to read files, look at the web, or run code to secretly feed the AI instructions.

Principle 2: Be the human in the loop. For now, AI works best with human help, and you want to be that helpful human. As AI gets more capable and requires less human help—you still want to be that human. So the second principle is to learn to be the human in the loop.

Using AI in our everyday tasks serves to enhance our understanding of its capabilities and limitations.

Principle 3: Treat AI like a person (but tell it what kind of person it is).

AI is what those of us who study technology call a General Purpose Technology (ironically, also abbreviated GPT). These advances are once-in-a-generation technologies, like steam power or the internet, that touch every industry and every aspect of life. And, in some ways, generative AI might even be bigger.