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Eric Siu explains how to use AI as an intelligence amplifier. The key is asking good questions and exercising judgment with your prompts. Poor judgment produces poor output.
Eric Siu explains how to use AI as an intelligence amplifier. The key is asking good questions and exercising judgment with your prompts. Poor judgment produces poor output.
I'm not asking it to think for me. I'm asking it to teach me things that I don't know or help me solve problems that I otherwise wouldn't be able to solve reasonably. I'm not exactly sure what people are using it for that would cause you to not have to think. For example, the idea of prompting an AI, the idea of asking questions. For example, you're spending most of your time today asking me questions. In order to ask good questions, it's a highly cognitive skill.
So what AI is, is it's actually an intelligence amplifier. Okay, so if you have bad judgment, what's going to happen is you are going to ask bad questions and your output is going to be bad because you haven't thought it through. But when you have good questions and you're actually trying to problem solve, AI becomes a lot more useful in that respect. So think about it from an intelligence amplification standpoint. And also you want to think about this from a— if you have good judgment and you use AI, you're going to be able to do a lot more. If you have poor judgment and you use AI, you're going to create a lot more junk, a lot more garbage in the world. The way in which a lot of people in the world use AI right now, they use it to search, they use it to create recipes, they use it for base-level things where it doesn't necessarily require a lot of thought. And even people who work for companies right now, when they use AI, they just use the first response that they get back. When you use it as a thought partner and you use it to refine the way that you do work, you're going to end up being in a 1 1 10 situation versus you just doing rote-level work such as, how do I do a Google search, or how do I find the, the basketball scores, or something like that?
