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It's difficult to imagine the past few years without artificial intelligence, even if you don't use it. Can you remember the last day without AI-related news items or social media posts? “Looking five or ten years away, it seems like we're in a world where AI tools are not the norm,” says Justin Weinberg of Daily Nous, who offers a more subdued take. “We expect facilities with them and that expectation informs the social and professional norms that we all take, whether we like it or not.”
To an audience of philosophical scholars, Weinberg raises the question: Are you using AI? What's more, “Are there any specific kind of tasks that you want to learn how to use AI? Here at Open Culture, I'd like to ask readers. What do you use AI in your daily life in a meaningful way? Previously, we've covered applications such as Openai's text-generating ChatGpt and image-generating Dall-E. Nowadays, tools that promise the “power of AI” are growing daily in increasingly diverse fields of human effort.
For many of us, AI, although very impressive, has been merely a technology to entertain ourselves so far. I personally rely heavily on the ideas I put in the prompts, but I have been laughing hard at AI-generated stories over the past year or two, just like the rest. But I have heard the occasional story of the true benefits that AI tools have brought to someone's personal or professional life. It helps to clearly explain long-misunderstood concepts, bridge gaps in children's education, and decide on care to seek medical issues.
If you have any experience like that, please leave a comment on this post and tell us about them. Open culture readers may be taking real mileage from AI to summarise complex academic texts, translate historical documents, and explore more deeply into philosophy, literature, and science to generate “poetry, music, or visual art in historical and avant-garde style flows.” Or, “Practice in a foreign language through translation, conversation, and grammar modification.” At least that's what ChatGpt thinks. I look forward to reading your thoughts in the comments below.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall is a post and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
