Marginalium

AI ideologies, or how to use AI better. The using them better part requires some reading between the lines, but it’s true that e.g. AI is mostly a procrastination tool vs a productivity tool. The best benefit of AI in writing papers etc is to have it show you how not to write something and then edit that heavily until its correct, or realise the right way to write it. I don’t know anyone who has successfully used large chunks of output verbatim. Similarly, the ‘prompt myth’ leads many (including me) to get frustrated. You keep explaining yourself in the chat, why won’t it understand? Moving to the API and simulating chat, but letting me edit the chat to remove information I don’t want, or sharpen answers improves the subsequent ‘chat’ dramatically. Why I stress the fact that, AI isn’t like us. Better to treat it thus.