AI
My opinionated take on AI
AI is, in my opinion, great as an idea generator, like ancient greek oracles.
Answers tend to be more on the cryptic and ambiguous side; rather than accurate, precise and predictable. Results can be quite artistic, or even guesswork or hallucinations, but can still be useful to inspire getting into new territories, for strategizing and taking steps that have the highest impact when you want to do something new, or understand a novel thing quickly, even if not always based on hard evidence.
I try to avoid content that is entirely produced by AI both in writing and in reading. Please don’t make me read your AI content without telling me: it feels alienating. Or maybe that’s just me. Maybe you can surprise me, that can be a happy moment.
How I use, and read, on AI
I do believe that certain kinds of prompts with AI can be very useful and I’d like to tailor my requests in a way that can be useful to myself and others. So maybe sharing core prompts can help. This is what I usually say when interacting with AI:
> What do you think about X if you'd need to analyze objectively with pros and cons?
> What would you argue if you'd need to take one stance? and then what would you argue if you'd take an opposite, or alternative stance?
> No need to tell me your whole process, or get back to things we're not discussing now, but it seems a good idea to ask about them again once in a while. if I don't respond after several attempts perhaps best to drop and then review weeks later, and ask to drop or snooze.
correct me if I'm wrong of course, now and always
here's my
linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/bj-pm
website: https://ramoneando.com/
thanks! you rule!
Tools I use
- ollama
- grok
- openAI
- gemini
- perplexity
- claude
- also regular check on builder apps
Books on AI I’ve enjoyed so far
- Player Piano. By Kurt Vonnegut.
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. By Ethan Mollick.
- The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant. By Tae Kim
– Quotation from Ethan Mollick: Co-Intelligence Living and Working With AI. Penguin Publishing Group (2024) (pp. xvii-xviii). Kindle Edition:
General Purpose Technologies aren’t just about work; they touch every aspect of our lives. They change how we teach, entertain ourselves, interact with other people, and even our sense of self. Schools are in an uproar over the future of writing, based on the first generation of AIs, and AI tutors may finally radically change how we educate students. […] And all of this ignores the larger issue, the alien in the room. We have created something that has convinced many smart people that it is, in some way, the spark of a new form of intelligence. An AI that has blown through both the Turing Test (Can a computer fool a human into thinking it is human?) and the Lovelace Test (Can a computer fool a human on creative tasks?).