
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI

Imagine a future where you go to a news website and use queries like these to define your experience there: Hey, Wall Street Journal, give me hundred-word summaries of your three most-read tech stories today. Hey, CNN, show me any climate change stories that happened today involving policy-making. Hey, New York Times, can you create a counter-argum
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Principle 2: Think of yourself as a director, not a carpenter.
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
‘Evaluate this essay for grammatical and sentence structure.’
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
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.
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
“AHA!” moment, to underscore the “Amplifying Human Abilities”
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
GPT-4 provides, with unprecedented speed and scale, each of us with probabilistic syntheses of the world’s existing words to consider as inputs, challenges, and inspirations for our own work.
Reid Hoffman • Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
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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Write an interview between [20th-century. American political theorist] Iris Marion Young and [20th-century German social theorist] Jurgen Habermas about whether, and if so, how, internet technologies structurally transformed the public sphere.