How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide

Here are three key principles I’ve found useful in my own attempts to use GPT-4 in my work. Principle 1: Treat GPT-4 like an undergrad research assistant, not an omniscient oracle. If you’ve ever worked with an undergraduate research assistant (or if you were one in college), you know that a helper like that is both powerful and limited in specific

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You just need to use AI enough to get a feel for what you can use it for in your area of expertise. The most important thing to do is to get 10 or so hours of use with an advanced AI system. And to do that you just need to be a good-enough prompter to overcome the barriers that hold many AI users back. There are really two pathways to get started:

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There's this idea floating around that using AI means you're somehow cheating the creative process or making it too easy.

But that's NOT how I use AI at all.

When I work with AI, I'm not checking out of the creative process. I'm fully in it—throwing questions, bouncing ideas, asking for rephrasing, exploring different angles.

This is VERY different to... See more