A Good Prompt Should Include

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A good AI prompt should include: 

  • Sample content

  • Specific guidance on tone, length, structure, word count, etc.

An example:    

Write a 1,000-word article on estate planning, targeting mid-aged professionals in the southeast US. The tone should be informative but approachable. Use plain language and a clear structure so it’s easily scannable. Include actionable tips and examples. Our firm focuses on public service professionals, such as teachers and firefighters, so please use language, scenarios, and tips that are relevant to this audience. 

Keep providing feedback until the output meets your requirements.

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Your self-evaluations

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Your self-evaluations are important because they influence most areas of your behavior, defining the limits of what you will attempt. You avoid an activity if your self-concept predicts you will perform so badly as to humiliate yourself. For instance, if your self-concept includes the belief that you would be a poor ice skater, you might never try it, and will indeed remain a poor ice skater. Often people excuse themselves with “That’s just the way I am.” By using this excuse, they deny themselves opportunities for personal growth.

Sharon and Gordon Bower, Asserting Yourself

The Question that Will Predict How AI Impacts Your Job

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A clarifying question: does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled part of your job or the low-skill rump that you’ve not been able to get rid of? The answer to that question may help to predict whether your job is about to get more fun or more annoying — and whether your salary is likely to rise, or fall as your expert work is devalued. -Tim Harford

23 Surprising Things AI can do now

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Google DeepMind unveils an AI-powered model that creates interactive 3D worlds in real time - Google DeepMind

Parkland Shooting Victim Recreated as AI for Jim Acosta Interview.- The Guardian

AI can now beat polygraph tests to tell when you're lying – 311 Institute

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die - Washington Post

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. – Quanta Magazine 

Missionaries using tech to contact Amazon's Indigenous people – The Week

An AI-Generated Protein Helps T Cells Kill Cancer – The-Scientist  

AI helps traditional Japanese fish-killing method get a robotic upgrade – Semafor

Google and OpenAI are vying for top AI mathlete – Axios

AI comes to California’s electric grid – Union-Tribune

AI is helping patients fight insurance company denials – NBC News

Dubai to debut restaurant operated by an AI chef – Reuters

Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm – Wall Street Journal

ChatGPT Tells Pregnant Woman To 'Call an Ambulance'—Saves Their Lives - Newsweek

Large language models are proficient in solving and creating emotional intelligence tests – Nature  

How A.I. Is Transforming Wedding Planning – New York Times  

ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation – Scientific American

Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is A.I. – New York Times  

LooksMapping, an A.I.-powered website, rates not the food, but the attractiveness of the diners. – New York Times  

AI tool diagnoses nine types of dementia with 88% accuracy using a single PET scan – MIT Tech Review 

AI Can Keep Truck Drivers Awake - Wall Street Journal

Finding viable sperm in infertile men can take days. AI did it in hours. - Washington Post 

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? - New York Times

Using AI for Writing Obituaries

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Two days after Jeff Fargo’s mother died, he lay in bed, crying, at home in Nevada and opened his laptop to ChatGPT. Her friends had asked about an obituary, so for nearly an hour he typed about her life. “I just … emptied my soul into the prompt,” said Fargo, 55. “I was mentally not in a place where I could give my mom what she deserved. And this did it for me.”  - Washington Post

There’s a tiger over there! (according to my phone)

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“Everybody is fighting for your attention, so your only real defense is to make it so that those stimuli don’t come in the door,” says Boston University cognitive neuroscientist David Somers. The idea that your technology should alert you when it thinks you should pay attention is relatively new, and, frankly, it’s a big step backward. You’re letting the bushes rustle nonstop, and telling yourself there’s a tiger over there.

“It’s so important that we define where we want to go as opposed to letting technology drive us and we’re just hanging on for dear life,” says author Amy Blankson, who works in the field of positive psychology, specifically on maximizing happiness.

Still, everyone gets a buzz from this high-octane news environment. Literally. Every notification, every tweet, every beep and buzz releases dopamine and other neurochemicals, providing a moment’s elation. As with any drug, your brain gets used to it. Perhaps even craves it.  

Reclaim control of what you read.

Emily Dreyfuss, Wired

Using AI to Flesh Out Half-Baked Ideas

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I’ve always found it easier to work out my ideas through dialogue, but not many people are interested in hearing my half-baked ideas. That is why I’ve found that talking through ideas is one of the best uses of AI for writers. NotebookLM takes the idea of talking to the archive to the next level: The archive you chat with is one you assemble yourself with sources for a particular project, which the AI can also help you collect to get started. -Jonathan D. Fitzgerald on Mashable 

20 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care

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An AI-Generated Protein Helps T Cells Kill Cancer – The-Scientist

AI is helping patients fight insurance company denials – NBC News

ChatGPT Tells Pregnant Woman To 'Call an Ambulance'—Saves Their Lives - Newsweek

An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine –  National Academy of Medicine

Mayo Clinic develops AI tool that can identify 9 dementia types with a single scan – R & D World Online 

Abridge, Whose AI App Takes Notes for Doctors, Valued at $5.3 Billion at Funding – Wall Street Journal  

AI tool diagnoses nine types of dementia with 88% accuracy using a single PET scan – Technology Networks 

Finding viable sperm in infertile men can take days. AI did it in hours. – Washington Post  

AlphaGenome is an AI-powered platform aiming to predict how genetic code variants lead to different diseases – Stat News  

Doctors Report the First Pregnancy Using a New AI Procedure – TIME  

New Arizona law prevents AI from making health insurance denials – AZ Family 

WVU researchers test AI’s limits in emergency room diagnoses – West Virginia University 

The expanding role of AI in dentistry: beyond image analysis – Nature

AI faces skepticism in end-of-life decisions, with people favoring human judgment – Medical Xpress

Explainability in the age of large language models for healthcare - Nature 

It’s too easy to make AI chatbots lie about health information, study finds – Reuters

AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors – MIT Tech Review 

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai develop AI-powered mental health ‘robot’ therapist – LA Times

Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors – Wired

A GPT-powered medical device certified in Europe raises questions about generative AI in health care – Stat News