Ask HN: What do you consider the function of AI to be in your life currently?
The article discusses the role of AI in augmenting human capabilities, particularly in learning new concepts and skills. The author uses large language models (LLMs) as a tool to facilitate learning by generating projects and ideas, allowing for a more hands-on approach. This approach enables individuals to develop a working model of a concept and build upon it, rather than relying solely on reading and recitation.
- ▪The author uses LLMs as a problem-solving tool to generate projects and ideas.
- ▪This approach allows for a more hands-on and interactive learning experience.
- ▪The author believes that AI can facilitate learning by providing an initial angle to explore a new concept.
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I was wondering what frames of view others had on how they use the new AI wave to augment themselves in some way or another. I realize that itself is somewhat vague, since you could take “augment” to mean anything from, i.e. in writing, prose review to full-on generation of articles or whatnot. The sense I mean particularly is that where it facilitates something in/by you, not necessarily just for you.I’ve taken to using LLMs as sort of “problem space fuzzers”. I know for a lot of people, myself included, learning something new feels a lot more natural when’s it’s by doing rather than simply reading/reciting (where possible). Sometimes, while a discipline itself interests me, I can’t find the initial angle to crack it at where it sparks my curiosity to do its own thing.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.