To avoid the slot machine effect, differentiate between: —exploration time, where you’re playing with the AI and trying to learn how to use it properly, and —actual work time, where you have a specific objective to complete. Once you’ve hit your goal, close the AI.
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AI Early-Adopters Over-Generate Content Beyond Their Goals
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This leads to a behavior, very common with AI early-adopters, where you keep generating new information or content, even AFTER you’ve achieved your goal. What could have been a time savings becomes a net loss.
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Five Traps That Will Sabotage Your ChatGPT Efforts
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5 traps that will sabotage your efforts with ChatGPT and similar tech:
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The Slot Machine Effect: AI’s Addictive Nature and Dopamine Hijacking
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## The Slot Machine Effect Because AIs like ChatGPT and DALL·E generate content from a prompt nearly instantly, they hijack your dopamine in the same way a slot machine does. Press the button and see what magic comes out. It’s addictive — & I’m not using that word figuratively.
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AI Will Revolutionize Every Industry More Rapidly Than Previous Technologies
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This is not an over-hyped trend like “big data” or “blockchain”. Yes, those technologies are powerful, but they are not as immediate or flexible as AI. You can use AI with no experience or software. Which is why it will blitz through nearly every industry in the next 2 years.
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5 Red Flags to Watch Out for in AI Business Adoption
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# Prepare Yourself: 5 Traps Lurking in AI Tech After earning 7+ million impressions by sharing advanced ChatGPT prompt tips, I’ve had ~ a dozen conversations. Spoke with all sorts of people about AI in their business. Every single call gave off at least 2 of these RED FLAGS:
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ChatGPT ushers AI into its defining iPhone moment
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ChatGPT's massive popularity has pushed us into an “iphone moment” with AI. Just as apps changed the meaning of "cell phone", over the next few years, much of what used to be true is going to get redfined.
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Meta AI Presents CICERO: First Human-Level Diplomacy Game AI
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Meta AI presents CICERO — the first AI to achieve human-level performance in Diplomacy, a strategy game which requires building trust, negotiating and cooperating with multiple players. Learn more about #CICERObyMetaAI: http://
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Chatbots Connected to Search: Sparrow and Perplexity AI
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E.g. our own Sparrow connects a chatbot to @Google search. A cool demo by @perplexity_ai shows something similar, and also allows you to query a @Twitter database for e.g. "histogram of top words from my tweets" (somehow I seem to use @ylecun a lot???).
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LLMs With Tools: Beyond Single-Word Generation
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Many people mistakenly think that large language models that generate one word at a time is the end game.
— Oriol Vinyals (@OriolVinyalsML) 11 janvier 2023
Connecting LLMs with tools, e.g.: search engines, python interpreters, etc., is super exciting, and leverages tools' power, robustness & more! pic.twitter.com/39PmdYEgwvMany people mistakenly think that large language models that generate one word at a time is the end game.
Connecting LLMs with tools, e.g.: search engines, python interpreters, etc., is super exciting, and leverages tools' power, robustness & more!