I love this point: "One question that I keep thinking about is how do tools like this make us have to think and do differently—in ways we’re just not used to.
I think about this every time I get a result from generative AI and (almost always) ask the follow up question to the results: “What did you miss?” Inevitably, the AI shares new ideas and considerations that it didn’t in its first answer.
As a long-time journalist, the last question of any good interview is: So what did I miss? What should I have been asking you? What would you like to know from others like you?
I also keep asking that thinking question As you said, that "One question that I keep thinking about is how do tools like this make us have to think and do differently—in ways we’re just not used to."
Which is basically what I find those of us who were already in a critical thinking and analytical mindset will always do, when we learn a new tool. We step back and wonder, okay, there is that output but what about all the others I don't I know, that I don't know how to access. this new AI tool is unlike others we've ever used, and it's rather invigorating! I've found that one needs to be in dialogue with any AI in order to push it to delve more deeply into outputs beyond the first one. I tend to use Claude more than Chatgpt . Thanks for the Great article outlining your thought process to achieve a different output.
The openness to new understandings, new engagement with information and with learning, is so well documented here. The evolution of how we question and what we do with those answers thereafter has always been fascinating. GenAl extends that, even if it feels like it's more of a paradigm shift than other tools. The foundation is the same: new understandings of how we come to understand things.
At the beginning you mentioned "It’s part of a larger thought piece I’m working on in general about “where” the meaning is in an output by GenAI (hint: it’s within us, not within the AI, but understanding and unpacking that is tricky)." -- are you familiar with Tim Fawns work on entangled pedagogy, it might provide some useful framing.
I love this point: "One question that I keep thinking about is how do tools like this make us have to think and do differently—in ways we’re just not used to.
I think about this every time I get a result from generative AI and (almost always) ask the follow up question to the results: “What did you miss?” Inevitably, the AI shares new ideas and considerations that it didn’t in its first answer.
As a long-time journalist, the last question of any good interview is: So what did I miss? What should I have been asking you? What would you like to know from others like you?
Amazing what you learn!
I also keep asking that thinking question As you said, that "One question that I keep thinking about is how do tools like this make us have to think and do differently—in ways we’re just not used to."
Which is basically what I find those of us who were already in a critical thinking and analytical mindset will always do, when we learn a new tool. We step back and wonder, okay, there is that output but what about all the others I don't I know, that I don't know how to access. this new AI tool is unlike others we've ever used, and it's rather invigorating! I've found that one needs to be in dialogue with any AI in order to push it to delve more deeply into outputs beyond the first one. I tend to use Claude more than Chatgpt . Thanks for the Great article outlining your thought process to achieve a different output.
The openness to new understandings, new engagement with information and with learning, is so well documented here. The evolution of how we question and what we do with those answers thereafter has always been fascinating. GenAl extends that, even if it feels like it's more of a paradigm shift than other tools. The foundation is the same: new understandings of how we come to understand things.
Always fun to follow your explorations...
At the beginning you mentioned "It’s part of a larger thought piece I’m working on in general about “where” the meaning is in an output by GenAI (hint: it’s within us, not within the AI, but understanding and unpacking that is tricky)." -- are you familiar with Tim Fawns work on entangled pedagogy, it might provide some useful framing.