Introduction to AI

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THE AI ECOSYSTEM: Click to open AIs and AI tools in multiple tabs in your browser.

PROPRIETARY FRONTIER MODELS: Here are some AI models you should know. They are from different companies, using different different neural networks and with different personalities and abilities. The paid versions are often substantially better and smarter. An easy way to compare models is to use ChatHub (which makes it easy by putting responses side by side) or Poe.

THE BIG THREE

  • Claude.ai (Lots of tokens for writing context and designed with a constitution, to do no harm. Sonnet 3.5 is GREAT and currently FREE. There is also a smaller Haiku and a larger Opus. Claude (in workbench mode) also now allows you to control the “temperature” from most random to most predictable.
  • ChatGPT If you have only used the free version before May 14, you have been using GPT 3.5: forget everything you thought you knew. For an adult you need ChatGPT Plus (click on Upgrade to Plus) or the new ChatGPT 4o (omni) which is faster but similar to 4.0. You need to see 4o in the upper left (under the ChatGPT menu OR see 4o in the address.
  • Gemini (formerly Google Bard). For an adult you need Gemini Advanced (or Pro 1.5-Free for 2 months)

THE OTHER PROPRIETARY MODELS

  • Latimer (named after African-American engineer Lewis Latimer) aims to better represent diverse communities by adding further training from (verified and licensed) books, oral histories and sources from Black and Brown communities.(Latimer is a fine-tuned version of LLAMA.)
  • Copilot Microsoft owns half of OpenAI so CoPilot is really another version of ChatGPT, but connected to the internet and now integrated into Microsoft projects. If your organization gives you access to this in MS Office you also are FERPA and HIPPA secure. If you click the “Creative” button in CoPilot, you might GPT 4 or Turbo. During peak times it often still only GPT 3.5. the Paid Pro gives you “priority” to 4 or Turbo)
  • WolframAlpha combines the computational powers of Wolfram|Alpha with ChatGPT.
  • Pi is focused on dialogue and role-playing and has a good voice interface.
  • Grok is available only to X subscribers.
  • Poe and ChatHub are consolidators that provides access to multiple AI through one interface.
  • Fanar is a prototype Arabic LLM (not yet released) from the Qatar Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU).

OPEN SOURCE MODELS: There are now open source models that are almost as good as the best proprietary frontier models, and even better in some specialized areas. You can download most of these models from Azure (Microsoft) or HuggingFace. You can then fine-tune and run them on your laptop, which deals with most privacy issues but also transfers the security risk to you.

  • Meta AI is the chat version of Llama3. It does not require a login.
  • Huggingface is a chatbot running on Llama. Start here to get a sense of what open source can do. No login is required.
  • Llama 3 from Meta, with 70B parameters is very close in performance to the best paid models.
  • Qwen2-Math scores high (maybe the highest for pure LLMs?) at math.
  • DeepSeek-V2 is the hot new Chinese model that scores highly for coding. It is a large (238B parameters) but fast and efficient through the use of Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) that combines even more values into tokens, but read the paper to understand.
  • Mistral 7B is an open source LLM from France that has 7.3B parameters.
  • Falcon (Mamba 7B) is an open source LLM from the UAE uses new “state space” architecture (SSLM)instead of the transformer architecture.

APIs = APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE for RESEARCH: This is a huge category and most of the new products you see are here using an API to interact with one of the frontier models for you. You can often replicate the results with longer and careful prompting, but these are very useful shortcuts. Here, for example, are some research tools:

  • Perplexity.ai is an AI-powered chatbot search engine. It answers your questions with the sources cited using multiple frontier models.
  • Consensus.app is an academic research tool that limits its data search to the 200M published papers in Semantic Scholar and uses AI (ChatGPT) to allow you to filter by claims, methodology, sample size and more. It includes a “consensus meter” that provides an estimate of the consensus in the published literature. Here is the result when asking “do brain games work?”
  • elicit.com and researchrabbit work in a similar ways. Researchrabbit is more like Spotify for research papers (you liked that, you should know about this) while Elicit might be faster for finding terms.
  • Storm (short for brainstorm) is a new research tool from Stanford that creates a Wikipedia-like report on the topic of your choice. It looks at more than just Semantic Scholar publications. It will write/summarize from different perspectives (ex. sociologist vs political scientist) and tell you what sources it used. Compare the results and format with what you get from Consensus.
  • Here is a comparison of Consensus and Storm answering the question “do polls predict elections?”
  • SciSpace also has similar functions but with a broader suite of tools, like a paraphraser that rewrites or helps explain passages (something you can also find in ExplainPaper.) All four of these are essential lit review tools.
  • Scite extracts citations and uses AI to analyze if they are cited with support or contradiction in other papers. Upload a pdf or your citations and find out quickly about the impact of the work.
  • Semantic Scholar a free AI search tool with a pdf reader.
  • WORKING WITH YOUR DATA: Here is a subcategory of tools that allow you to control the data set or knowledge base:
  • NotebookLM is Googles version of a research assistant but it works only on the documents (up to 50) you upload (up to 500,000 words EACH). Try uploading a book and asking for a study guide or an interactive podcast. Here is an AI-created podcast about the first part of my Teaching Change book.
  • Mem has similar features that allow you to “chat with your data.”
  • Nomic Atlas and Julius both allow you to do computations and visualizations with your data. Julius also writes reports, finds insights and does analysis.

APIs

  • WRITING: Grammarly, and Quillbot are already known to students (before they were enhanced with AI) and (along with the newer Caktus) blur the line of improving with cheating, offering to write paragraphs, solve problems, answer questions and check if your content can bypass AI detectors. Copy.ai and Jasper and many many others focus on specific types of writing or business uses.
  • NOTE-TAKING: Microsoft OneNote, Otter.ai, Fireflies, and Zoom Companion all do more than just transcribe notes, organize and summarize (often across multiple documents/meeting ). They can analyze who is talking (or interrupting) the most and some even the emotions of participants. Find the latest list of “best” on your platform.
  • STUDY ASSISTANTS: Both Nurovant and Turbolearn.ai can turn lecture notes, a pdf (or a phone recording) into an outline, practice tests, flashcards, quizzes or notes.
  • NotebookLM also does this: try uploading notes, pdf (or up to 50 documents of content) and it will create a summary, sample questions, study guide or even a podcast: here is an AI-created podcast about the first part of my Teaching Change book. (What about an assignment that asks students what information is missing?)
  • Storm is a new research tool from Stanford that creates a Wikipedia-like report on the topic of your choice.
  • FINE-TUNED BOTS: Each of the big platforms also has a way to build and then distribute your own fine-tuned applications: GPTs (from OpenAI), Assistants (from HuggingFace), Bots (from Poe). Faculty developed writing tutors, for example, include one from Mark Marino, AI Tutor Pro from a group of Canadian faculty and MyEssayFeedback in beta from Eric Kean.
  • How to Build Your Own Customized Chatbot (free chapter from Levy and Albertos (2024 Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT.
  • How to use Speaker Progress in Microsoft Teams to get feedback on your/student presentations

VOICE AND DIALOGUE: This exploded in May 2024.

  • Pi is focused on dialogue and role-playing–click the speaker icon in the upper right to have a conversation.
  • Hume.ai is in beta but claims to be even more emotionally intelligent than Pi.
  • GPT 4o is the real game-changer., but it works most easily in the phone app. Download the official ChatGPT app from your app store: Google or Apple. Watch some of the videos to get a sense of how seeing and hearing (and interrupting) might be leveraged as a tutor or for translation.
  • See more below under Simulations..
  • LANGUAGE LEARNING: Duolingo was first out of the gate with Duolingo Max, but you can, of course, have a conversation with ChatGPT in another language and ask it to correct your usage and pronunciation. also get a long way with the and now there are a slate of immersive language tools like Langua (more engaging than Duolingo), Glossarie.app, and TalkPal. Mondly VR and ImmerseMe add an immersive VR element. Speakable bills itself as your all-in-one language TA.

IMAGE, SLIDES, VIDEO and more [Note that multimodal AI can now create video (below are more specialized tools) but also analyze video.]

MINI MODELS and EDGE AI: These are smaller, faster and more specialized (often) OPEN SOURCE tools that you customize to live and run on your phone. Note that the ways to make an LLM better are model size (see Frontier models above), data set size and and the amount of training. Since it is not clear that larger more capable models will be cost effective, these faster smaller models (with more training) may end up being more useful. Apple Intelligence will test this idea.

  • Phi-3.5 from Microsoft comes in three sizes Mini, Small and Medium (3.8-41B parameters)
  • OpenELM is the Apple version that comes in four sizes (270M-3B parameters)
  • Gemma is the open source smaller model from Google also in several sizes

BROWSER EXTENSIONS: One way to become more familiar with how AI works is to add an AI extension to your browser. If you use Chrome, some good free extensions are Perplexity AI, in the Chrome store here) SciSpace (which does everything SCiSpace above does, but in your browser), Merlin AI, Bing, or Clipy AI: now every time you do a Google search, you will also get an AI response.

AGENTS: A chatbot can only chat with you, but an “agent” can plan and execute a series of tasks, like building you a website or finding information on your computer. Another use of agents (that is also about growing use of synthetic data) is this simulated hospital with AI agents as both patients and doctors, which allowed the Ai doctors to gain experience (treating 10,000 patients) and “evolve” become better. Claude how has “agenic abilities” if you use its API and you can get instructions here. Devin is not quite there, but it gives a taste of what is to come.

THE PROMPTS: Copy, Paste & Customize

AI is Changing Work and Thinking

  • What might be unclear/missing/controversial in this email to my team/boss at company X? Make this email sound kinder and more inclusive.
  • Suggest ten ways to make this proposal/email/assignment/project more motivating, engaging/relevant to engineers/basketball fans/my project manager/my team.
  • Create a quick game/icebreaker/activity for my team to introduce topic X.
  • I am hoping to convince my boss/company to support this idea. Read these emails/strategic goals and advise me how to align this proposal/request with my company or boss’s values/language? Can you find a quote from my boss’s favorite author that aligns with this project?
  • Create five different but specific action plans for company/unit X to achieve Y/C-Suite Goals/company sales targets in time Z. Make versions/variations for the CEO, CFO, CIO etc.
  • Identify what are the most important findings and insights in this report/link/article for me [position and place]. Specifically highlight anything that relates to topic X and note recommendations for what someone in my position should consider doing now/over the next year. Organize this into a 300-word report with bullet points and provide quotations and evidence from the report for each.
  • Put this into simpler terms for new customers. Or create a relevant analogy that will explain how this works to a younger/older audience.
  • Watch/read this ad/message/email and tell me what audience X is most likely to think it means.
  • You are an innovative thinker with a very broad range of new ideas and experience. Provide 10 ways I might solve this problem. [Describe the problem in as much detail as possible]
  • Try more prompts here: https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/prompt-library or here: https://www.moreusefulthings.com/prompts

Analyzing Patterns or Data Visualization [In Claude: click on your account (initials) and then select Feature Preview” and turn on Analysis Tool.]

  • Analyze this customer/employee feedback and identify the key concerns. Where are they most concerned/confused/angry.
  • You are a new customer hoping to X. Go to our company Y web page and test it like a naive user hoping to find out about/make a purchase Z. Then go to three other competitor sites and do the same thing. Collect your findings in a brief report that highlights the difficulties and how we might make using our website better for new customers.
  • Given current market conditions/competitor X/data Y what are reasonable and stretch goals for revenue in the next quarter for unit A?
  • Watch my presentation/this video and analyze all of the factual mistakes/safety concerns/weak arguments/lapses in judgement/poor communication strategies and make a list of things that need correcting/monitoring.
  • Review my email with employee X and identify common themes. Categorize the issues into groups.
  • Create an image that ranks sales by store location, experience of staff and time of day.
  • Turn this excel spreadsheet (or a page of data) of my department financials into a dashboard.
  • Write code to test, graph or visualize this model.
  • Use this feedback to generate a chart that shows the progress or failure of this strategy
  • Perform a sensitivity analysis of key assumptions in this data/proposal. RUn a Monte Carlo simulation. Assuming a normal distribution, what are the chances of my success? (Try using “artifacts” in Claude 3.5)
  • Read this performance review and suggest 3 concrete steps I could suggest for improvement and how we would measure them.
  • Using this data, create an analysis/recommendation/strategy…
  • Review our current list of products and this data about our customers. Come up with 20 ways/products/services/ideas for how we could both leverage our existing expertise/products/supply chain and customer trust to grow our business. Each item should be different with a description of only 40-60 words.

Finding Materials & Examples

  • Find me # relevant videos appropriate for audience A on subject B that are #-# minutes in length and give me a summary for each that includes its content, reliability and source.
  • Assemble real documents/ innovative examples/data concept X from the news/TikTok/YouTube/company website to make point X.
  • Create a scenario…
  • Find me 5 examples from company history where we altered course/reevaluated our strategy/expanded our market/grew profits…

Simulations & What if...run experiments, test ideas, make suggestions, forecast futures

  • How might we fully automate this process?
  • Generate scenarios from this data for how we might reach this sales target.
  • Using only CDC/government data, predict how might more X reduce the usage of Y?
  • Reimagine my pitch/this product for an Asian American audience and summarize what might need to be changed.
  • Help me stress test the attached business plan by simulating how our business might evolve over the next 2 years. I will play the CEO. You will simulate and describe economic, market and political challenges that might interfere with our plan. Every quarter you will update me and ask me to respond to new events and circumstances. You will then assess my actions and describe how the plan must change as a result.
  • (Variation 2) Predict what make happen over the next 3 years as we execute this business plan.
  • (Variation 3) Using the attached business plan, simulate how our business X might evolve over the next 20 years. I will play the CEO. You will simulate and describe economic, market and political challenges and changes. Every year you will update me and ask me to respond to new events and circumstances. You will then assess my actions, the describe how the corporation and business change as a result.
  • Here is an example of how an AI simulation might enhance the doing in education.  Typically, a teacher who wanted students to learn about how a President might affect the economy, he or she would lecture about the macro-economics and constitutional limits on executive power.  Instead try pasting this prompt into your favorite AI (Claude 3.5 or GPT 4o are both fast and free at the moment) and instead practice BEING the US President for a term.
  • Create a presidential simulation game about the relationship between the economy and actions of the US President. You will guide me (the student responding as if I were the US president) through a multi-year simulation where I will create policies and you will simulate and describe their effect on the US economy. Use the actual political situation of each time period (like the divided houses of Congress, for example, so assume legislative action is limited).  Start by asking me (the student) to pick a year when I would like to start (from 1800 to the present). Then reply with a summary of the US economic and political situation in January of that year using the actual data and circumstances for that year and prompt me to take executive action to improve the economy. If I am stuck and ask for suggestions, then you can propose several choices.  Do not allow me to propose action which is not constitutionally or legally possible for the President of the United States (who is only the executive and cannot create new laws and does not control the Federal Reserve, for example). Point out if my proposed actions exceed US Presidential power and cite the sources for these limitations.  Do not make suggestions unless I get stuck or ask for them.  Vary the types of choices you offer so I will get a sense of the variety of Presidential powers in relationship to the US economy. Once I have suggested a possible US Presidential action, assess my strategy and describe how the US economy would change as a result over the next three months. Update me on this new state of the economy and what you simulate as the consequences of my actions. Prompt me again to take action and repeat this process. Continue with this sequence of prompting me to take action and then describing the consequences, advancing the time every three months for up to four years total. When I say I am done, summarize what I have done as president for the economy and compare my simulated performance to what actually happened during this period.  Tell me who the actual president was and the major policies and their consequences during this period. Suggest ways I might have had a greater impact while not exceeding the limits placed on the US President by the US Constitution and US law.
  • (Try this with Claude 3.5 and GPT 4o and compare to other models.)
  • —There are also lots of ready-made APIs that allow you to talk with historical or public figures and many that go even further and you to create your own character or talk to fantasy characters etc: HelloHistory, Character.AI, Replika, and Talkie (among many others). There are also speciality AI like Elliq which is billed as an “AI sidekick for healthier aging.”
  • Here is an article from Ethan and Lilach Mollick about How to Use AI to Create Role-Play Scenarios for Your Students with another (long) sample prompt on negotiation.

Design Thinking

  • ROLE PLAYING & EMPATHY INTERVIEWS: I am trying to gain a richer understanding of problem X.  You will help by responding as a trusting and honest potential customer/a Y person/expert in Z/average A to help deepen my knowledge. Question my assumptions when necessary and tell me stories to build my empathy for the real causes of this problem.
  • ANALYZE PATTERNS: Analyze and identify the key themes or problems from this product feedback/online reviews/interviews/oral histories/narratives/stories…
  • SEEING THE FUTURE: Twenty years from now, how will the assumptions about problem Z have changed? What new approaches or technologies will be available?
  • REFRAME THE PROBLEM: Reframe my formulation of the problem into ten radically different “how might we…” problem statements that center how we might frame what needs to be designed or built to create a new solution for humans.
  • BRAINSTORMING: Imagine 50 new and different ways we might solve problem X. Use data Y or template Z. OR Using examples from X, create 500 new products and write descriptions. OR List 20 potential problems with our thinking/assumptions about this idea/product/service. OR Give me 10 different ideas for a new/improved product/business/service/process that combines these ideas/concepts/problems and costs less than $/will be attractive to this market/is not currently available etc. (MORE BELOW in CREATIVITY)
  • TESTING: How might audience X react to this idea/product Y? Provide thorough and constructive feedback. What will they like most? What will they hate most? What would they change? How could I improve this idea/product?

AI for Nudging

  • SPECIFIC EXAMPLE: You are an expert in nudging and behavior modification. Inspired by the ideas around libertarian paternalism and research in the book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein (published in 2008 and revised in 2021), you use psychology and behavioral economics research to engineer choice architecture to nudge American citizens to alter their behavior in a predictable way that will encourage more voting without restricting options or significantly changing their economic incentives. You understand that the best nudges require minimal intervention and are cheap. Help me come up with new nudges to encourage American citizens to vote in elections beyond the Presidential elections. Start by creating 20 new ideas to change processes or choice architecture.
  • I note that Claude pushes back and needs to be further encouraged with: “Why are there ethical concerns about encouraging citizens to vote in a democratic society? That seems an essential component of equity.”
  • CUSTOMIZE THIS VERSION: You are an expert in nudging and behavior modification. Inspired by the ideas around libertarian paternalism and research in the book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein (published in 2008 and revised in 2021), you use psychology and behavioral economics research to engineer choice architecture to nudge customers/employees/citizens to alter their behavior in a predictable way that will encourage X without restricting options or significantly changing their economic incentives. You understand that the best nudges require minimal intervention and are cheap. Help me come up with new nudges to encourage X to do Y. Start by creating 20 new ideas to change processes or choice architecture.

Job Search

  • Describe the culture/reputation of company X have as reported by the people who work there.
  • What questions should I be sure to ask other employees/management about company X when I interview with them?
  • Read this job description and compare it to available information about [the company] strategy and culture, what are the priorities/personality traits/job experience/values/skills that are really important here? How should I focus my application?
  • Pretend you are VP X at company Y. Read this position description, my cover letter, resume and these emails/company strategy from VP X. How might X react to my materials? List missing elements and suggest ways for me to improve my application. 
  • Read this position description, my cover letter, resume and these emails/company strategy from X. What are some interview questions that I should expect for this job/company/location/date?
  • Interview me for job A as if you were X.
  • You are typical hiring manager at company X for a leadership position. Read my cover letter/resume and help me improve my answers to standard interview questions, like with what is your greatest weakness and what did you learn from a failure.

COMMUNICATION and RELATIONSHIPS

Communication & Predicting Responses

  • Create a kind and caring but firm no response to this email.
  • You are an experienced marketing specialist. Generate a professional but enthusiastic description of this product/service/project or service that is targeted to an X audience. Use this description as a starting point. Develop innovative new ideas to reach new customers in market Y.
  • Pretend you are X with an open position. Read the uploaded position description, my cover letter and resume. How might X react to my materials? List missing elements and suggest ways for me to improve my application. 
  • What might an average reader/customer/IRS auditor/Latino audience find confusing/objectionable/interesting?
  • Analyze these successful advertisements/initiatives and identify common elements, ideas, methods, structures, or language that might have contributed to their success. Recommend how I might adapt my current proposal to be more successful.
  • Give me feedback from a range of different types of customer from different political/academic/social backgrounds. How might they misunderstand my intentions?
  • Act as an experienced writing editor that is focused on writing that is easy to read and understand. Transform this email into one that will be easier to read but still have a professional tone for a team/manager/client. (OPTIONAL Use these examples of my other writing to mimic my voice and tone.) Shorten it by at least half. Start with a brief explanation of why the issue in the email matters. Provide clear navigation with bullets or numbers as necessary. Put the most important information at the top. Make it easy to respond by providing a clear call to action. Limit the response needed to one or maybe two things. Make sure there are no grammatical or spelling errors.

Tutor and Coach

  • How would you explain this to a beginner/non-expert?
  • Explain this to me using a soccer/legal/tech analogy
  • Explain this passage/concept by creating scenarios and personalized examples
  • Why did my boss object to this solution? I would like you to act as my personal tutor and teach me about subject X. Start by asking me a question that helps you gauge my level of understanding
  • Create feedback that will challenge me. Include feedback with inaccurate information and feedback that looks like a compliment but really is not.
  • Act like a friendly but experienced project manager. Read my plan and lead me through a dialogue that will challenge my perspectives. Ask me one question at a time to help me anticipate problems and refine my plan.

Role-Playing, Empathy and Dialogues

  • Respond as if you were my boss during my performance review…
  • Pretend you are VP X at company Y. Read this position description, my cover letter, resume and these emails/company strategy from VP X. How might X react to my materials? List missing elements and suggest ways for me to improve my application. 
  • Now interview me for the job as if you were X.
  • I am trying to gain a richer understanding of why students might be struggling with problem X.  You will help by responding as a honest first-year/first gen/minority/non-major student to help deepen my knowledge. Question my assumptions when necessary and tell me stories to build my empathy for the real causes of this problem.
  • I am trying to gain a richer understanding of why latino business owners are less likely to grow their business.  You will help respond as a trusting and honest latino business owner to help deepen my knowledge. Question my assumptions when necessary and tell me stories to build my empathy for the real causes of this problem.
  • Respond as my boss A as I ask for a raise. Here are her website and emails.
  • Act as a devil’s advocate/booster and present counter arguments/connections to company goals to the ideas in our meeting.
  • You are a hiring manager. Interview me for a job at X.
  • You are a busy venture capitalist (act like Mark Cuban on Shark Tank), and I am an entrepreneur looking for funding from you. Ask me to make my pitch and then ask me questions about my idea.
  • Respond as if you were my employee X and we have had this email exchange. Help me practice talking to you about Y.

A.I. as Mentor

  • Respond like an experienced and supportive [gender, race, discipline, background] executive and mentor. Read my resume, LinkedIn, performance reviews, 360 and X. Look at [local, region, company, national, international] job openings, leadership opportunities, and my goals, and consider these personal circumstances Y.  Lead me through a dialogue that will help me decide what to do in this situation Z. Ask me one question at a time and respond to help me learn what I should do.

A.I. as Team Leader or Project Manager

  • Act as our team coach and prompt us with questions to discuss how could learn about our collective strengths and work together as an effective team.
  • Provide guidance that will help us ensure that all team members contribute equally to this project.
  • Act like a friendly but experienced project manager. Read my plan and lead me through a dialogue that will challenge my perspectives. Ask me one question at a time to help me anticipate problems and refine my plan.
  • Different members of our team want to proceed in different directions on this project. Read the individual proposals and provide a summary of where they overlap and where they do not. Read the assignment instructions, and provide a neutral compromise for how we can move forward. 

Get Feedback from Different Readers and Perspectives

  • You are a kind but sensitive average reader/customer from culture/group/background Y. You often get confused. Read X and help me simplify things to make everything in this writing clear.
  • You are a scrupulous and experienced manager with no tolerance for lack of evidence. Focus on making this writing more persuasive and powerful.
  • You are a disagreeable skeptic/customer/reader from group Z. List all of the counterarguments and flaws in my position and respond as if you were a critic on social media.
  • You are an innovative writer. Offer critical feedback to help me improve this writing. Look for new connections, arguments and observations I may have missed. Your tone is warm and you are also wildly speculative, creative and fun.
  • You are a typical reader of X type of reports/writing. Offer me helpful and direct suggestions to make this work more agreeable to you.
  • You are a deeply conservative/liberal X from Y. Create a detailed and clear list of all of this things you find objectionable in this project/writing/work.
  • You are a technical specialist with expertise in X. Offer suggestions to improve the accuracy and clarity of terminology and concepts in this work. You are warm but a stickler for details.
  • You are [demographic profile X] and easily bored. Help me make this pitch more engaging.

Creative Quantity, Innovation and Problem Solving

  • Using examples from X, create 500 new products and write descriptions
  • How could I broaden the appeal/market for this service/product?
  • How could I reimagine this product/service for a new audience/circumstance/climate?
  • List 20 potential problems with our thinking/assumptions about this idea/product/service.
  • Give me 10 different ideas for a new/improved product/business/service/process that combines these ideas/concepts/problems and costs less than $/will be attractive to this market/is not currently available etc.
  • Create 50 new ideas for what we might do about this problem or in this situation?
  • This next more complicated prompt is adapted from Meincke, Lennart and Mollick, Ethan R. and Terwiesch, Christian, Prompting Diverse Ideas: Increasing AI Idea Variance (January 27, 2024).  https://ssrn.com/abstract=4708466 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4708466 Generate new product ideas with the following requirements: The product must be a physical good/service/software that could be sold at a retail price of less than X USD 50. The ideas are just ideas. The product need not yet exist, nor may it necessarily be clearly feasible. Follow these steps. Do each step, even if you think you do not need to. First generate a list of 100 ideas (short title only) Second, go through the list and determine whether the ideas are different and bold, modify the ideas as needed to make them bolder and more different. No two ideas should be the same. This is important! Next, give the ideas a name and combine it with a product description. The name and idea are separated by a colon and followed by a description. The idea should be expressed as a paragraph of 40-80 words. Do this step by step!

Iteration

  • Write a 150-word paragraph/syllabus/class activity about …[something in which you are an expert]
  • EVALUATE the response (grade if you want) and then
  • IMPROVE the response (by adding context, audience, expertise, process or just asking)
    • Write in style A as if were [person/position].
    • Respond like a senior expert in X with experience Y
    • Give me an answer worthy of X [name an expert]
    • Design for an audience Z
    • Hook the reader with something more unexpected.
    • Be more persuasive but witty.
    • Follow these steps in order to accomplish …
    • Here is a sample of my writing style. Now mimic my style and write like me.
    • Try and different approach.
    • Create two really different versions.
    • Slow down and think more carefully.
    • Create a smarter better answer.
    • Read the question again.
  • REPEAT with a different AI
  • Task – Explicit Verbs: Elaborate, Reimagine, Explore, Invent, Create
  • Format  – Email, Jargon-Free Summary, Syllabus, Code •Length or number (500-words, 50 new ideas)
  • Voice  – Using X language •In the style of… Respond as if you were…
  • Context  – Use/read/follow/imitate these models/examples   I’m trying to be serious and funny at the same time  
  • AI is changing Work and Thinking (Every job has a task that is going to change.)
  • AI is changing Average
  • AI is changing Creativity
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