I am working on a long-form article in the AI space. Funny enough, AI has been incredibly useful with the process. I started with my own words from hours of voice memos where I explained the concept and direction I wanted to go.
AI took my words and wrote a rough draft. I edited the draft heavily, changing phrasing, rewriting multiple paragraphs at a time, and more. Now I'm using AI to incorporate feedback from select people as well as performing final edits. I often debate with it about two options for incorporating a specific item of feedback, just like I would with an editor.
The result is a long piece of writing from me, but it's difficult to know which words were me and which were the AI. In my experience, it's similar to how I've worked with a human editor in the past, except the feedback loop compressed from weeks to days.
In the end, I'm the one pouring over the words and putting my name on it, so it's going to be my published work. And it is far from a one-shot prompted paper. These tools are remarkable.
know thyself.
recently i shot clay pigeons with friends. when we started, i told the range master that my super power is hitting them at the last possible moment. he didn’t like that and spent the next 30 minutes coaching me on shooting early during ascent because it’s easier, to which i had low accuracy.
later when we decided to play a knockout game, i ignored him and proceeded to pick off multiple people at once by hitting their pigeon just above the tree line.
believe in yourself
Sitting in a university class. On the laptops around me I see Word and Google Docs.
Not seeing any AI note takers.
They are actively listening and using their own brain to curate what they think is important.
I have hope for this generation.