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  • AI is not Google: you are the answer machine

    Anyone who uses AI as a search engine gets confident nonsense and thinks less for themselves. Anyone who uses AI as a thinking partner becomes sharper. The difference lies in the direction.

    'If you use AI in a stupid way, it makes you stupider. If you use it in a smart way, it makes you smarter.' I say this in almost every workshop, and usually people laugh. Then it goes quiet, because everyone recognises themselves in the first half of that sentence.

    Feel free to copy the prompt at the bottom of this article, so you can let AI challenge your own answer.

    The search engine habit

    Most people have been trained by search engines for twenty years. You type a question, you get an answer, you move on. It makes sense that we use AI in the same way. The window looks like that too: a box, a question, an answer.

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