AI is Not an Answer Machine
If You Take What AI Gives You, You’re Doing It Wrong
If you take what AI just gives you, it’s going to be disjointed, incomplete, somewhat misrepresenting and at times downright dumb.
But this is no different than walking into a meeting with experts and taking the first ideas that come to mind.
Like all good work, it requires a copious amount of dialogue to cancel out errors, and converge to something that is good, and at times even great.
AI is not an answer machine, and treating it as such is dumb. It is a dialogue machine, which can work with people to arrive at unique, solid and at times innovative work.
Pointing to AI’s mistakes as evidence for lack of intelligence or genuine creativity is a straw man. The one thing all great human creators have in common is an absolute ton of dumb mistakes when zoomed in. Those errors are *critical* ingredients to true creativity. They produce the gaps, the juxtapositions. Access to the information one needs to create great work is not available without them.
Ai is not a “machine” in the sense dissenters talk about it. It is not rules-based, and it is not there for “answers.” It is there for dialogue.
What survives that dialogue is what creativity is. It does not exist anywhere else. It is not something that came from AI, it is something that materialized from persistent conversation.
If you are using AI correctly, the outputs that are produced do not exist in the conversation. They stand outside it, induced by one’s experiences and abilities.
Do not take what AI gives you. That’s dumb. That is not how to use AI, just as that is not how to “use” humans.
It’s already inside you. You just need to do a lot of talking to get it out.