
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI

But when human users treat GPT-4 as a co-pilot or a collaborative partner, it becomes far more powerful. You compound GPT-4’s computational generativity, efficiency, synthetic powers, and capacity to scale with human creativity, human judgment, and human guidance.
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
But unless someone has already taken the trouble to compile and publish the exact information you’re looking for, it could be very time-consuming to find. Even if that information exists on a single website, like Wikipedia or NFL.com, it will likely be spread across multiple pages. Getting your answer will still chew up a lot of your time.
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
The takeaway: in your overall quest for authoritative information, GPT-4 helps you start somewhere much closer to the finish line than if you didn’t have it as a resource.
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
‘Have this evaluate your essay for ideas and content, or for sentence structure, or for organization, and then go ahead and take that feedback—that personalized feedback—and improve your essay.’”
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
Principle 3: Just try it!
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
[If ChatGPT] can do a job as well as a person, then humans shouldn’t duplicate those abilities; they must surpass them. The next task for higher education, then, is to prepare graduates to make the most effective use of the new tools and to rise above and go beyond their limitations. That means pedagogies that emphasize active and experiential
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“AHA!” moment, to underscore the “Amplifying Human Abilities”
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
This doesn’t eliminate the possibility of misuse. But, in situating human beings at the center of the new world that GPT-4 makes possible, we get what I believe to be the soundest formula for producing the best potential overall outcomes. In this approach, GPT-4 doesn’t replace human labor and human agency, but rather amplifies human abilities and
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‘Evaluate this essay for grammatical and sentence structure.’