If you want to do something with AI, just ask it to help you do the thing. “I want to write a novel; what do you need to know to help me?” will get you surprisingly far. And remember, AI is only going to get better at guiding us, rather than requiring us to guide it. Prompting is not going to be that important for that much longer.

This doesn’t mean

humans could thrive alongside AI by: (1) specializing in asking the best questions, (2) learning insights or skills that are not available in the “training data” used by the deep learning networks, and (3) turning insights into actions.

Has your ability to make sensible ‘guesstimates’ of the kind of answer you are looking for got better or worse? These are the effects of technology, and it is with these that education has, presumably, to be concerned. As teachers, we cannot know what tools will be available to our students throughout their lifetimes. So we have to think about the