Part 2: The Less Flashy Side Of Artificial Intelligence: How Can It Help You?

It can be a great benefit to have somebody curate and summarize something for you.

I mean, that's super helpful.

But imagine how much is lost when all I have is one paragraph of information.

Pew Research has done really interesting research showing that When you give people that one paragraph of information, only 8% of people actually click below that one paragraph to even look at a single link below that paragraph.

That's Beth Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University and director of the Burns Center for Social Change.

She also worked as the deputy U.S. chief technology officer in the Obama White House and more recently as New Jersey's founding chief innovation officer.

Novick says a polished answer isn't always a correct one.

AI can get things wrong while still sounding completely confident in its incorrect answer.

That ability to know, number one, what's the source of that information, where it's coming from, being able to check it is so important.

And that's why I think it's, number one, really, really important that we all learn how to use these tools, that we all try more than one tool.

So even if in your workplace or your school, you are given access to Claude, you should also try ChatGPT, see how they behave differently.

Try Gemini, try a bunch of the tools because you have to see the differences in how they act.

to understand really, again, where the benefits are and where the limitations are.

And then, yes, doing that fact checking like we've been taught to do since we were little kids and we were told, you know, check your sources, check your sources.

That's even more important today in the world of AI.

Again, not because there's an abundance of information, but because that information is getting more and more compressed.

more and more summarized.

And we don't always know, again, where it's coming from, why it's summarized in the way that it is, what information is being pulled out.

That's very hard for us to know.

So going underneath the hood, so to speak, is really important.

Using AI can save time, organize information, and help you work through complex problems, but it still needs a human check on the other end.

And once you understand these limits, the next question becomes, which tool actually makes sense for what you're trying to do?

Now, which one you like, which one is better, you know, like depending on the day of the week, I think Claude is very, very good at research.

Chachi PT is better at writing tasks and that changes as the models evolve.

So you have to try different ones to see what you like for different tasks.