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One Useful Thing
A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
a month ago
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On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
2 weeks ago
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What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
a week ago
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Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
3 weeks ago
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AI is not good software. It is pretty good people. A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI
4 weeks ago
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One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
a month ago
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It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
a month ago
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How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide People often ask me how to use AI. Here's an overview with lots of links.
2 months ago
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Feats to astonish and amaze A compendium of things I didn't think AI should be able to do
3 months ago
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My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
3 months ago
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Thinking companion, companion for thinking Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
2 months ago
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Acceleration. 7 days of new AI technologies shows us that everything is happening very fast.
2 months ago
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I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
3 months ago
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Magic for English Majors Programming in prose in an AI-haunted world
3 months ago
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Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful Here are five strategies and prompts that work for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
2 months ago
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The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI We had a brief glimpse of two different types of AI. Both are significant
3 months ago
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A prosthesis for imagination: Using AI to boost your creativity AI can already beat humans in many measures of creativity. Let's use that to our advantage.
4 months ago
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The practical guide to using AI to do stuff A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
4 months ago
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How to Get an AI to Lie to You in Three Simple Steps I keep getting fooled by AI, and it seems like others are, too.
3 months ago
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Blinded by Analogies What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
3 months ago
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Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true...
3 days ago
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A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
3 months ago
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The Machines of Mastery "Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
4 months ago
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Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
3 months ago
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"Do not fear AI, puny humans... that is not meant as a threat." What we can learn from a completely AI written & illustrated lecture
4 months ago
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How to... use AI to unstick yourself We often lose momentum because of something small. AI can help.
2 months ago
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The future of education in a world of AI A positive vision for the transformation to come
a month ago
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Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
2 months ago
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Democratizing the future of education We are all EdTech designers, now
a month ago
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Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
3 months ago