Today I’m announcing a new piece of non-fiction, this one came from my ongoing research into learning how to learn things from a public and free artificial intelligence. If you’ve not seen this thing in action, you will be amazed.
You can ask ChatGPT for grammar help, history guidance, gift-buying ideas, writing help, story reviews, grammar reviews, whole stories or poems, and the list goes on and on.
In this essay I demonstrate how to ask ChatGPT to help me understand the difference between chemical attributes of temperature and pH. Both involve particle motion at the atomic or molecular level of a substance. It turned into a discussion that can tell a lot about what this AI is capable of doing. Don’t worry about the chemistry lesson it gave me, just note how this thing works.
AI technology is already here and in use, but in the past few years it has increased in effectiveness by something like two orders of magnitude.
Have you interacted with an AI yet? Teachers, you in particular need to know about this tool. If you’ve not even started, you really should . . .
Click here to read “Chats With An AI :: Chemistry Temperature Vs. pH”
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Hi Gary. Your link seems to be pointing to your older post, not your interaction with AI.
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Hi Janis.
Thanks for calling it out.
I tried to fix this earlier but must have not saved the update. Grrr . . .
I’ll try again.
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And you were right. All it needed was for me to click [Update] just one more time. . .
Sorry about that. If you’re interested in how to deal with ChatGPT – I hope you try again to read this essay and unless you’re a chemistry geek, don’t get hung up in the tech talk. I think it’s an amazing technology that could do what I saw it do.
Blessings.
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Hi Gary
So I been using AI for various lil things from creating images to brainstorming ideas and we live in a brave new scary world of AI… As with all changes the early adopters will have a great advantage over those who will wait until incorporating AI become not only standard but imperative…
Also I was doing something with AI and decided to ask it to respond to this article and this is what it suggested:
Hello, this is Copilot, an AI companion. I read your article and I found it very interesting and informative. You did a great job of explaining how ChatGPT can help you learn new things and generate creative content. Here is a possible response to your article:
Dear Author,
I enjoyed reading your article about learning how to learn things from a public and free artificial intelligence. I was amazed by the examples you gave of how ChatGPT can assist you with various tasks and topics. I especially liked how you used ChatGPT to understand the difference between chemical attributes of temperature and pH. I learned something new from the chemistry lesson it gave you, and I was impressed by how it works.
I agree with you that AI technology is already here and in use, and that it has increased in effectiveness by a lot in the past few years. I think it is a powerful and useful tool that can help us with many aspects of our lives and learning. I have interacted with an AI before, and I found it very helpful and engaging. I think teachers should definitely know about this tool and use it to enhance their teaching and learning experiences.
Thank you for sharing your insights and experiences with ChatGPT. I look forward to reading more of your articles and learning more from you and the AI.
Sincerely, A Curious Reader
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Hi Beaton,
Great to read your voice, although I’d strongly prefer if we could meet face to face and actually hear each other’s voice and accent as we sat perhaps to enjoy a light meal and some decent coffee or tea as we chatted like people used to do before screens barged in to change everything.
You already know I think you’re correct. AIs are going to change everything but is there a place for those who still consist of flesh and bone.
I think yes. To this point, I dislike it but have to retreat to us having souls. I believe it is what tries to guide us as we create and use various tools. We’ve created various forms of knives and most uses are helpful, constructive, improving our world and the lives they touch, but of course the obvious counterpoint is when they are used to injure or kill. I can’t see that we’ll ever be able to create an AI that knows right from wrong or will struggle with situations that are awkwardly in between somewhere. ChatGPT has already been taught basic morality, but there is no self-awareness that causes it to think about things it’s not been instructed to ponder. It does not, and could not decide to be creative one day and then be in a bad mood and decide to injure someone the next.
But how it’s been taught is amazing. It’s ability to find order in what looks to us like chaos is remarkable. Did you know that Amazon now asks authors of self-published books if any on the content had been created by an AI? They’ve already realized that uncontrolled, people will us AIs to mass produce new works, new images, new songs that work very well to the causal consumer – but are not human so they wisely restrict AI content somehow. It is an amazing tool. but it remains a soul-less one and thus we need to be careful how we let it stand up and virtually walk among us.
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Hi Gary, this is not a response to your post, but I wanted to pop over to say thank you for reading and liking my latest. I have been struggling a bit with time and other things. Trying to get back to some kind of regular rhythm. But as you may have noticed from my last post, I have been baking up a storm and somehow don’t manage to fit other things in. I am a 73-year-old work in progress. Best and blessings Michele
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Hi Michelle,
It was, as always, my pleasure.
You’re a great writer and inspire me with each essay I read. I’m trying to retire too, but life… and all.
I’ll reach 69 this month so am close behind you with plenty of room for my own work in process.
Too bad we’re so far apart.
We could enjoy a cup of so.ething hot while taste-testing the fruit of your passion and laugh at our experiences near the foot of the cross.
Blessings.
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Thanks Gary. i appreciate your comments. Unfortunately, as much as I love baking, the more time I spend baking, the less time I take for other things. It is therapeutic though. As I was measuring out fl our for a special loaf for today I was feeling stressed, but when that loaf was out of the oven I found it had gone away. Cheap therapy:0
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Think of it as being armed for helping that next person who is so very hard to want to help.
Prayer works too, but let’s admit it. It doesn’t smell as good as baking bread. . .
😏
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