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How are you using AI to learn and grow?

coffeebeqn 2y ago
Learning a new domain or programming language for example
lores 2y ago
I use it for creative inspiration. I'm bad at working without constraints, but I can take a rough idea or design and run far with it, learning a lot in the process of doing. I wouldn't get quite as many chances to without a template, however bad.
RecycledEle 2y ago
> How are you using AI to learn and grow? An AI chatbot’s chat window is its short-term memory. If anything in the chat window is wrong, start a new chat window to get away from the incorrect premise. I use ChatGPT most of the time, but you can use any AI chatbot. I get a quick introduction to a topic by asking an AI "What do you know about..." Here is an example where I asked “What do you know about the IRF540?” https://chatgpt.com/share/fc313c34-e66f-4881-a2b1-421258eb7649 https://chatgpt.com/share/fc313c34-e66f-4881-a2b1-421258eb76... I get motivation by telling an AI about myself and then asking it "Why should I be excited about..." Here is an example where I asked “I teach college computer classes. Why should I be excited about cybersecurity?” https://chatgpt.com/share/43acb37d-0beb-45da-b2f9-eb547ca0d9c9 https://chatgpt.com/share/43acb37d-0beb-45da-b2f9-eb547ca0d9... I use AI as a writing coach. This is a multi-step process that involves many revisions: 1. After I have my outline, I open a new chat window and ask an AI to also create an outline. I take a few ideas from the AI's outline while documenting the AI as a source. Here are failed examples because they are totally different than what I wanted: https://chatgpt.com/share/e9e0807e-9598-4bfc-829e-7ba6d00961e5 https://chatgpt.com/share/e9e0807e-9598-4bfc-829e-7ba6d00961... and https://chatgpt.com/share/e2973a8f-e19b-41db-a8af-2f1f3aacdbd7 https://chatgpt.com/share/e2973a8f-e19b-41db-a8af-2f1f3aacdb... 2. I explain what I am doing, then paste in a copy of what I have written so far. Then I ask the AI to give me bullet points on how to improve it without rewriting any of it. This is the part many people miss. You do not have to take the output of an AI in its entirety or not use it. You can ask an AI for suggestions on how to improve your writing and then implement those suggestions or not. You are writing, the AI is just making suggestions. 3. I ask an AI to rate what I am writing from 1 to 100 and do not use my writing until I have improved it enough to earn a 90 or better. 4. After I finish writing something, I stay in the same chat window where I am working with the AI to create the document (with the AI giving me suggestions, not with the AI writing it for me) and ask the AI to write the whole thing. Then I might copy an idea or two from the AI’s version, while documenting my source. Here is an example of revising this post using AI as a writing coach: https://chatgpt.com/share/cbc0dfbf-43aa-42d4-8759-4b77e229b87c https://chatgpt.com/share/cbc0dfbf-43aa-42d4-8759-4b77e229b8... I never did get this up to a 90. I’m sorry; I did the best that I could, but I am not an English professor.

Learning a new domain or programming language for example

I use it for creative inspiration. I'm bad at working without constraints, but I can take a rough idea or design and run far with it, learning a lot in the process of doing. I wouldn't get quite as many chances to without a template, however bad.

RecycledEle 2y ago

> How are you using AI to learn and grow? An AI chatbot’s chat window is its short-term memory. If anything in the chat window is wrong, start a new chat window to get away from the incorrect premise. I use ChatGPT most of the time, but you can use any AI chatbot. I get a quick introduction to a topic by asking an AI "What do you know about..." Here is an example where I asked “What do you know about the IRF540?” https://chatgpt.com/share/fc313c34-e66f-4881-a2b1-421258eb7649 https://chatgpt.com/share/fc313c34-e66f-4881-a2b1-421258eb76... I get motivation by telling an AI about myself and then asking it "Why should I be excited about..." Here is an example where I asked “I teach college computer classes. Why should I be excited about cybersecurity?” https://chatgpt.com/share/43acb37d-0beb-45da-b2f9-eb547ca0d9c9 https://chatgpt.com/share/43acb37d-0beb-45da-b2f9-eb547ca0d9... I use AI as a writing coach. This is a multi-step process that involves many revisions: 1. After I have my outline, I open a new chat window and ask an AI to also create an outline. I take a few ideas from the AI's outline while documenting the AI as a source. Here are failed examples because they are totally different than what I wanted: https://chatgpt.com/share/e9e0807e-9598-4bfc-829e-7ba6d00961e5 https://chatgpt.com/share/e9e0807e-9598-4bfc-829e-7ba6d00961... and https://chatgpt.com/share/e2973a8f-e19b-41db-a8af-2f1f3aacdbd7 https://chatgpt.com/share/e2973a8f-e19b-41db-a8af-2f1f3aacdb... 2. I explain what I am doing, then paste in a copy of what I have written so far. Then I ask the AI to give me bullet points on how to improve it without rewriting any of it. This is the part many people miss. You do not have to take the output of an AI in its entirety or not use it. You can ask an AI for suggestions on how to improve your writing and then implement those suggestions or not. You are writing, the AI is just making suggestions. 3. I ask an AI to rate what I am writing from 1 to 100 and do not use my writing until I have improved it enough to earn a 90 or better. 4. After I finish writing something, I stay in the same chat window where I am working with the AI to create the document (with the AI giving me suggestions, not with the AI writing it for me) and ask the AI to write the whole thing. Then I might copy an idea or two from the AI’s version, while documenting my source. Here is an example of revising this post using AI as a writing coach: https://chatgpt.com/share/cbc0dfbf-43aa-42d4-8759-4b77e229b87c https://chatgpt.com/share/cbc0dfbf-43aa-42d4-8759-4b77e229b8... I never did get this up to a 90. I’m sorry; I did the best that I could, but I am not an English professor.