good use cases for ai

Here's a simple thing you can do when traveling to countries where they don't speak the language. For many years, I gratefully used Google Translate to capture the nuance of what I wanted to say. But it turns out that's not always what you want. I have a little prompt I copy and paste into Claude or Gemini. The prompt is basically: "I'm going to

But there are already signs that AI can help. Research has successfully demonstrated that it is possible to correctly determine the most promising directions in science by analyzing past papers with AI, ideally combining human filtering with the AI software. And other work has found that AI shows considerable promise autonomously conducting

I can explore Aristotle, Kant, and Wittgenstein in dialogue with AI. We learn far more through dialogue than we do by monologue. The same goes for simulated dialogue. AI allows us to learn foreign languages in dialogue, which used to be the privilege of a very small minority. AI for learning in dialogue, simulation of thinking and stimulation of

So how do we do it? Let’s imagine that we want to come up with 20 ideas for marketing slogans for a new mail-order cheese shop. The AI can generate those for us, but we will get even better quality if we remember the principle of telling AI who it is: You are an expert at marketing. When asked to generate slogan ideas you come up with ideas that

AI can and will ruin your voice and credibility if you lazily let it write in your place. As writers we can not allow AI to replace our own thinking. We should use it to simulate the thinking of a missing dialogue partner. To write better, we need to think more, not less.

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Writing in dialogue with an artificial companion was unexpected, inspiring and exciting. Using AI in dialog over a writing task was a truly new experience. Using AI as a dialogue partner during preparation, when stuck, and in editing proved surprisingly useful.