Working with AI

Notion’s killer feature is having your team’s projects, wiki, CRM, and more in one place. It makes sense to chat with AI there and ask “what’s going on with XYZ client project?”

For this purpose, their “prompting not required” slogan is genius. When you just want a quick answer to a simple question, you shouldn’t need any sort of special prompt.

We have already outsourced the worst part of writing (checking grammar) and math (long division) to machines like spell checkers and calculators, which freed us from these tedious tasks. It would be natural to use LLMs to extend the process. And this is indeed what we have seen in some early research on using AI for work. People who use AI to do ta

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As one fun example, I read an article about a recent social media panic - an academic paper suggested that black plastic utensils could poison you because they were partially made with recycled e-waste. A compound called BDE-209 could leach from these utensils at such a high rate, the paper suggested, that it would approach the safe levels of dosag

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