Using AI, whaat!?

Yes, I utilize language models to develop my ideas. By this I mean that I prompt the AI, typically ChatGPT, with an idea or question. I then engage in critical thinking with the AI’s guidance. It often provides in-depth analysis and asks me questions to help refine my ideas. I utilize it in 3 ways: conversation engagement, discourse pattern detection, and generalized researching.

I learn and develop ideas best through communication. Unfortunately, people have busy lives. When I cannot converse with humans, I utilize AI.

I have realized that human discourse is extremely powerful. By finding patterns in discourse, I can better communicate my ideas to a broader audience, confront my own communication bias, and learn more about human behavior.

The most taboo use, I do ask AI to research for me sometimes. Before you judge! Like I said, people have busy lives! If I have a tool to gather and organize all of the articles I need on a particular topic, I’m going to take advantage of that. But of course, I ask for citations and then go out to find those articles. I do not read the articles through AI. One time I couldn’t find the article it was suggesting. So, I went back to ask if it was a mistake. It gave me a different title. Still didn’t work. Then, it gave me another title and page numbers. The page numbers were a bit off, but the title was right that time! I am aware that it has flaws. Everything has flaws.

That being said! I find great value in many of these conversations, but I cannot possibly write up an essay for every idea I have. I think… a lot. So, I will put some of my favorite interactions here. This is where you can witness the unfolding of my biggest projects.