Generative AI
by Johann Van Tonder · updated 3mo ago
Generative AI
As more human jobs become assisted, automated, or replaced by artificial intelligence, we must spend our hours where we have a competitive advantage over machines: developing new ideas, expressing old things in new ways, innovating process, and crafting the story that infuses our creations with meaning .
from Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence by Scott Belsky
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
Over the next year or two, I expect GPT-4 and its successors to become a copilot for the mind: a digital research assistant that will bring to bear the sum total of everything you’ve read, everything you’ve thought, and everything you’ve forgotten every time you touch a keyboard.
It will solve some of the perennial problems in produc
... See morefrom GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind by Dan Shipper
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
- For me, the goal is always to use AI to help people think better. Writing is thinking. That’s it. And if we don’t forget that, I believe the future of writing is going to be very exciting indeed.
from Writing with Machines by Every
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
- Even if LLMs don’t get smarter (though I suspect they will, and soon) new capabilities and modes of interacting with AIs, like agents and massive context windows, will help LLMs do dramatic new feats.
from Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play by Ethan Mollick
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
Ethan Mollick
- I can give it a video of my screen as I use my computer, and it accurately understands what I am doing and what I could do better. This allows the AI to work, for better or worse, as a manager or advisor based on observing the real world.
from Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play by Ethan Mollick
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
Ethan Mollick explains how Gemini brings us a step closer to the idea of your “AI Chief of Staff” (Cal Newport)
- LLMs combine what they “learned” in training with any new context you give them. There are many ways to give the AI additional context, the most common is in the prompt that you provide (“You should act like a marketer and help me respond to a request for proposal”), or any documents you upload to the AI.
from Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play by Ethan Mollick
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
- you haven’t really experienced AI until you have had three sleepless nights of existential anxiety, after which you can start to be productive again
from Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play by Ethan Mollick
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
- All three have different personalities and strengths, depending on whether you are coding or writing. Gemini is an excellent explainer but doesn’t let you upload files, GPT-4 has features (namely Code Interpreter and GPTs) that greatly extend what it can do, and Claude is the best writer and seems capable of surprising insight.
from Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play by Ethan Mollick
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
Ethan Mollick’s comparison of the 3 main LLM models
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