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RE: Coming Up With Ideas

Give Seenapse a try (https://seenapse.it). Seenapse is a unique combination of the ingenuity of human lateral thinking and the speed and automation of artificial intelligence.

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Amazingly helpful Ethan. How much did you use ChatGPT in writing it? That aside, I really like the vibe of embracing AI, rather than running from it. This has the feel of the heady days back in the 1990s when people were waking up to the web. But I think you rightly have included some warnings, e.g. hallucinating AI. Keep writing, I'm really enjoying it.

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Extremely helpful and I hope over time you can update this and share the updates as you and your students learn more. There are a lot of rapid changes happening here, and I will be sharing your insights with some friends as well as using it myself.

One point I include in discussing this area is that one should also never trust one internet site to have the "truth" on any subject, but rather learning is a continual process of checking various sources and asking good questions. This applies to new AI tools and everything else I do with the internet.

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Thanks for being a teacher to whom has never had the privilege to sit in your classroom.

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Have you tried you.com. It combines AI tools and social networks above with search. Just wondering what you think about this approach.

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In the creative process I like to use the AI to iterate my own ideas / concepts. By inputing my own art or text, I can output multiple variations, exploring the possibility space I wouldn't be able to do on my own. It works a bit like a (very non-judgemental) buddy for bouncing ideas around. Quite incredible.

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How about the research process? Productivity and depth of insight will increase exponentially, especially for non-experts and young learners: https://medium.com/@stanfordgseit/a-new-class-of-ai-tools-part-2-ai-boosted-research-1fc3a107e70b

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Using it to draft non-sensitive emails and legal documents has been a massive time saver for me

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Really helpful and interesting, thanks! My sense is that going forward if we educators want students to write and we want to be able to grade them or help them learn to write better, we can assume they'll use AI and encourage them to do so, and then go from there. Banning or curtailing its use seems counterproductive. Not only is that going to be impossible to police but what is the point of seeing what they can do entirely on their own vs what they can do when building on/working with AI?

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Apr 6, 2023·edited Apr 6, 2023

The Brainstorm bot at character.ai is distinctly better at conversational brainstorming. ChatGPT tends to either go into teacher's pet mode and spew answers, or ask you quite bland questions. With Brainstorm bot, I regularly have to convince myself that there isn't a human inside the shell.

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Hi Ethan, I am a PhD student studying technological innovation and knowledge diffusion. I have been one of your loyal followers for long.. thanks for sharing these articles!

I wonder if you have predictions about the commercialization of LLMs, specifically the industry timeline of adoption. I am also curious to hear your thoughts on emerging business model(s) in this domain.

Hope to hear your reply : )

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My humorous air response

Ha! So we humans may be prone to error, but AI is prone to not exactly hitting the mark! It's like asking a robot to paint a masterpiece, sure it may look good, but it's missing that human touch. But hey, at least with AI, we can keep hitting the "regenerate response" button until we get something that satisfies our demands. Let's just hope the AI doesn't get too fed up with us and decide to write an essay with the following points: -Humans are incompetent -Most human actions are irrelevant -In complex systems, humans cause more harm than good -Catastrophes are inevitable... just kidding! (I think...

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A weeks work here in following these leads up. And it would be a week very well spent!

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Great article, what does the 'AI' entitled diagram at the end depict(To pixelated to make out any detail when enlarged)?

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Really appreciating these articles. Love this idea of fully embracing these technologies and encouraging their use. Students and others are smart folks. Trying to ban them has the potential to make issues worse.

Off to try the AI image generator for a logo. Love that idea. Great stuff.

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