Augmenting Intelligence: Practical AI

Michael Woudenberg
Michael Woudenberg
Aspiring polymath with a background delivering technologies.

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Join us in exploring the powerful capabilities of AI to augment, not replace our unique human capabilities. This series will parse through the hyperbole and pragmatically explore AI from the foundations of whether it can be creative, to useful applications, to education, ethics, and even the joy of AI co-creation.


Michael Woudenberg is a techno-pragmatist, innovator, author, and educator focused on polymathic thinking. He writes extensively on Polymathic Being, a substack that explores counterintuitive insights across domains and disciplines to empower humanity.


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A wonderful introduction to rethinking our relationship with AI from replacement to co-creation and the plethora of opportunities we can unlock for ourselves.

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This article tackles the recent discussion around whether AI can be creative when it comes to art, writing, and other content creation. We’ll dig into what being creative really means, and how creative we really are. Throughout this essay, we’ll actually have a conversation with ChatGPT to discuss and test whether it can be creative.

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The impact of AI on education is a critical topic. While there are concerns about cheating, educator Nick Potkalitsky shares empowering stories of how AI helps students improve their writing.

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Ethan Mollick is a leading voice in pragmatic augmenting intelligence and shares critical insights for how to onboard your AI intern to help expand our own capabilities. 

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Many of us feel left behind in the explosion of AI. In reality, once the hype is stripped off, the divide between AI and our work isn’t as far as it seems. More importantly as AI has matured, the ability to use it has become much easier with much better results.

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Today we explore a practical framework to unlock the power of LLMs through structured prompting. These aren’t the magical incantations of prompt engineers but simple, logical, and useful tips.

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Deepfakes are a key concern for everyone even if we aren’t using AI personally. This essay by a leading AI researcher talks about ways we can prepare ourselves for a flood of misinformation.

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Today we’ll bring in more pragmatism view on the hype of AI and separate the hyperbole from the reality to show how it’s still super bloody useful.

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Wrapping up this deepdive is a powerful investigation on ways we can ensure our us of AI is ethical and focused on unlocking human capabilities.

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Thanks for joining us in this exploration in Augmenting Intelligence where we’ve parsed through the hyperbole of the optimists and the pessimists and uncovered pragmatic and ethical uses for AI.


If you want to learn more I recommend subscribing to the authors we’ve read and continuing to pay attention to the steady evolution of AI.


Finally, if you appreciated my work, you can learn more on my website and subscribe to my Polymathic Being newsletter.

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