Improve Human Performance
Ai improve human performance
People normally think that the artificial intelligence will be a incontrollable thing that will dominate the planet. Because we can't predict the future I won't say that this is impossible, but the current technology and hardware wont allow it.
So the most important thing that ai can do for us now is to help us in our tasks, help us to think better[[202102232112-HowToThink]]. In this note I want to resume the usages of ai that I am seeing.
Ease Domain transfer
Ai encode big datasets into relevant tasks, when it does this it also create latent spaces (hidden spaces) that can be explored and reveal other forms of working with things. When one user is designing something new he must know how to translate from the thinking/imagination domain to the software tools domain. This process ends up creating so many difficulties, and by using artificial intelligence we can ease this by transforming the way we communicate with a software from a GUI to another form (text input for example). One example of such tool is adobe neural filters.
Help memory and suggest new things
TabNine and Github Copilot is a plugin for Visual Studio Code that helps to write code by predicting what will be typed next, it work really well and helps the user to produce code faster.
Other usage is related to suggestions and creating boilerplate. In the following article we have an example of usage to help with data analysis.
Text interface to BigData
Recently we are seeing a boom into the OpenAI ChatGPT models, the usage vary from helping to summarize to question answering for users. One usage that I really liked is the possibility to interact with text domains such as this. We can use this models do search and link content. I'm gathering usages of this type, and probably this will revolutionize the way we interact with our content. The main difference is that we can lower the cognitive load from big information buckets.
Examples of usage:
Enhance thinking and decision making
I like the idea of using mental models to think and find creative solutions for problems, however it is difficult to remember to apply them in day to day basis when making decisions. Other day I was reading ai assisted decision making and I loved the strategy of using an LLM to enhance a decision by using the mental models avaliable in the literature.
Another idea is to talk with different personalities looking for new ideas:
As a helping tutor
In this example LLM are used like tutors for learning new things, impersonating and suggesting new ways of thinking.