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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Smart kids need to learn how to use AI.

We are now teaching people at work how to use it and it’s like come on man high school students configured this out.

The smart kids use it to edit their papers, brainstorm, check, grammar, etc.

Really smart ones popped their syllabus into it and ask for to write a study guide.

Savy ones can put their whole wardrobe in there and ask for it to pop out a bunch of outfits for the week. Most of. DC could use that

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I’m baffled by this idea that there’s a “smart” way and a dumb way to use it. As if learning how to craft the prompts is so difficult. It is what it is. You click a button and it does very thing for you in an instant. Is that amazing? Yes. Is that useful? Sure. Does it indicate your level of intelligence or savvy? No, it doesn’t.[/quote]

It’s really not as easy as that when you understand how it can be used.  I don’t disagree that it requires a ton of intelligence but yes it requires hours of work and some savvy.

For example, it’s easy to learn to use Excel for simple spreadsheets…but it’s useful to know all its advanced functionality for lookup tables and all kinds of other applications.  It takes time to learn that.

GenAI is similar because it can now create entire 30-slide presentations from scratch but it takes time and effort to do that and someone who just knows how to use it to write a simple essay will be baffled how to use it for more complicated applications.  You will learn after many hours figuring it out..but it take many hours.

The folks using Gen AI for movies/video said it took them nearly 100 hours to really figure it out so it could be used for a real commercial purpose.[/quote]

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