Lifelong Learning & AI Prompting
- Computer technology changes fast!
- What you learn today might not be as useful in a few years
- New tech will appear even after you graduate
- Solution: "lifelong learning"
- AI makes a convenient tutor
- When you say something to an AI, it is called a "prompt"
- Prompting skills are valuable to develop
- AI follows directions, so you can ask it to:
- "Make your answer brief"
- "Even briefer this time"
- "Answer at a beginner level"
- "Answer at an intermediate level"
- "Answer at an easier (or more advanced) level this time"
- AI will not always be correct
- If you feel like you understand more, you probably do!
Caution: This is not always true.
Clever manipulators can sometimes make people "understand" ideas that benefit the manipulator,
not their marks. Misinformation theory is a topic for another course.