I love that fridge story, Bette! How cool is that, literally? I've had success using it to test financial products. Not doing the thinking for me but checking my understanding of rules, scenarios and how things work.
That's awesome, Lisa! Yes, you can use it to help you understand more complicated concepts. I used it when I was deciding what to do with my retirement annuity. I'm not advocating anyone let it make decisions for them, but it can help you decide what you want to do and learn more about different aspects of things that you wouldn't be able to otherwise.
This is the kind of clear, level-headed response we need more of. You cut through the noise with thoughtfulness, nuance, and lived experience, thank you for showing what it really means to learn with AI, not lean on it.
Thank you George, I really appreciate that. It really irritates me how people distort findings like this for clicks and fear-mongering. So many people were posting this on LinkedIn with hundreds of comments and reactions about how it confirmed using AI will create more harm than good.
The fact that most participants had never used ChatGPT before is an important detail that's getting buried in all the hot takes. The tool is never the problem. It's always US.
On that note, we are in sync today on topics - well, kinda.
Yes, that little nugget has been completely getting buried in all the reviews/comments I've seen.
Maybe we should start doing some EEG studies with LinkedIn readers to see how much their brains really engage with these posts. Out of curiosity, of course 😊
Exactly. Unfortunately, a lot of people used this study to either prove what they really believed or just use it for social media agendas because it's been making the rounds on LinkedIn with a ton of engagement.
I will admit I was very trepidatious with AI but I am learning to use it to my advantage. Thanks for sharing your experiences and perspectives. I completely agree that we need to learn to teach and use it better because without that we are setting our future generations for failure
I remember when I first started using it, I was completely and utterly unimpressed. It was clunky and repetitive. It used a lot of the same bizarre words to me. Although they were common apparently. Which is why it using them.
But it's improved dramatically in the last couple of years. And it's going to continue to do so. And we're going to have to figure out how to live with it and teach it to students to use because the teaching is probably going to revolve around it at some point in the near future.
A good critique Bette - the study claimed results which were not really proven, and also had quite a small sample size. I think extensive use of AI may in time damage critical thinking if we become over-reliant on it, but it will take a lot more than this study to prove the case! 😀
I completely agree that there is the danger of becoming over-reliant on it if you don't develop your own thoughts, ideas, and ways of doing things. But this study didn't prove that, and unfortunately, people are using it in a way to spin a narrative that it didn't show.
Thanks John, I appreciate that. I try to keep my criticisms nuanced and balanced. I feel like with AI, it's another political hotbed where you have people completely on one side and completely on the other, and that is not going to do favors for any of us.
I would say everytime I use the tech for a new project - it involves a revelation. For instance, when I used it for my coding project, it couldn't do the perfect code neither it would understand what exactly I wanted with the website. This was when Lovable and Replit were not available :)
I remember using it when it first came out and being completely and utterly unimpressed. But now a couple of years later, the improvements are undeniable.
I also remember what it was like using it for the first time and how clunky it felt. Because you don't really know what you're doing.
Thanks, Hans. I think we're all still learning. We are in some uncharted territory. It's going to take a little bit of time and some patience to figure it all out, but we'll get there 😊
I love that fridge story, Bette! How cool is that, literally? I've had success using it to test financial products. Not doing the thinking for me but checking my understanding of rules, scenarios and how things work.
That's awesome, Lisa! Yes, you can use it to help you understand more complicated concepts. I used it when I was deciding what to do with my retirement annuity. I'm not advocating anyone let it make decisions for them, but it can help you decide what you want to do and learn more about different aspects of things that you wouldn't be able to otherwise.
This is the kind of clear, level-headed response we need more of. You cut through the noise with thoughtfulness, nuance, and lived experience, thank you for showing what it really means to learn with AI, not lean on it.
Thank you George, I really appreciate that. It really irritates me how people distort findings like this for clicks and fear-mongering. So many people were posting this on LinkedIn with hundreds of comments and reactions about how it confirmed using AI will create more harm than good.
Thank you for actually reading the study, Bette!
The fact that most participants had never used ChatGPT before is an important detail that's getting buried in all the hot takes. The tool is never the problem. It's always US.
On that note, we are in sync today on topics - well, kinda.
Yes, that little nugget has been completely getting buried in all the reviews/comments I've seen.
Maybe we should start doing some EEG studies with LinkedIn readers to see how much their brains really engage with these posts. Out of curiosity, of course 😊
good luck with that Bette.
I find better quality engagement on Substack. Medium still has some good collabs and conversations but I feel disappointed with LI.
I love it here on Substack. I've never been the biggest fan of LinkedIn. So my opinion of that one has not changed one iota 😂
I need to get back on LI for just a tiny bit but I can’t last for more than 5 minutes on there 😂😂
Thanks for taking the time to better understand this research. Too often we read the headline and believe it all on face value.
Exactly. Unfortunately, a lot of people used this study to either prove what they really believed or just use it for social media agendas because it's been making the rounds on LinkedIn with a ton of engagement.
I will admit I was very trepidatious with AI but I am learning to use it to my advantage. Thanks for sharing your experiences and perspectives. I completely agree that we need to learn to teach and use it better because without that we are setting our future generations for failure
I remember when I first started using it, I was completely and utterly unimpressed. It was clunky and repetitive. It used a lot of the same bizarre words to me. Although they were common apparently. Which is why it using them.
But it's improved dramatically in the last couple of years. And it's going to continue to do so. And we're going to have to figure out how to live with it and teach it to students to use because the teaching is probably going to revolve around it at some point in the near future.
A good critique Bette - the study claimed results which were not really proven, and also had quite a small sample size. I think extensive use of AI may in time damage critical thinking if we become over-reliant on it, but it will take a lot more than this study to prove the case! 😀
I completely agree that there is the danger of becoming over-reliant on it if you don't develop your own thoughts, ideas, and ways of doing things. But this study didn't prove that, and unfortunately, people are using it in a way to spin a narrative that it didn't show.
Your perspective on generative AI is so refreshing because it’s balanced and not extreme. Great piece, Bette!
Thanks John, I appreciate that. I try to keep my criticisms nuanced and balanced. I feel like with AI, it's another political hotbed where you have people completely on one side and completely on the other, and that is not going to do favors for any of us.
I would say everytime I use the tech for a new project - it involves a revelation. For instance, when I used it for my coding project, it couldn't do the perfect code neither it would understand what exactly I wanted with the website. This was when Lovable and Replit were not available :)
I remember using it when it first came out and being completely and utterly unimpressed. But now a couple of years later, the improvements are undeniable.
I also remember what it was like using it for the first time and how clunky it felt. Because you don't really know what you're doing.
Thanks for walking through this study, and how you have learned to use chatGPT, Bette. I'm still learning :)
Thanks, Hans. I think we're all still learning. We are in some uncharted territory. It's going to take a little bit of time and some patience to figure it all out, but we'll get there 😊