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Learning to Work with AI

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Richard Merrick
May 08, 2024
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When I was a child in Scotland (a long time ago), we were encouraged to adopt a contorted seated physical stance to hide our work during exams so that the person next to us would not copy our answers.

This thought cropped up as I continue to try and find where the edges are on AI, and that when it comes to most (but not all) forms of knowledge, we can’t hide our answers.

The more I have asked it to analyse and synthesize divergent texts, the more impressed I am.

I asked it to extract the key leadership lessons from comparing Daniel Susskind’s Growth and Ron Heifetz’s work on Adaptive Leadership. Then, I asked it to consider Nassim Taleb’s work on Antifragility and Skin in the Game.

Then, I went all Coach on it and asked, “Anything else?” to which it duly responded, almost thoughtfully…

Finally, from its typically long list of answers, I asked it, “If I could only choose one priority, what would it be?”

If you must prioritise a single point for immediat…

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