Getting started with AI (if you're overwhelmed)
8 tips for Smart Professionals to quickly see what's possible
My smartest friend has read a book a week since he was 12 years old.
He's now 46.
(Heck, he’s read Infinite Jest three times.)
He worked in high-frequency trading then started a crypto fund.
The other day, he confessed:
"I only use ChatGPT for search, I know I'm missing out. How can I get started?"
Here are 8 tips I gave him:
1. Pay for $20 for the best models
If you're only getting one, I recommend ChatGPT as it's more consumer-friendly and has more features.
If they want to be frisky, I say get Claude (which feels more like a friend).
2. Ask it to be your reading partner
Pick an older book (Crime and Punishment, Bhagavad Gita) and at the end of every chapter ask:
Play the role of a college literature professor and ask me 5 questions to reflect on what I just read.
3. Learn something new using Advanced Voice mode
There's gotta be some random topic you're interested in learning more.
The origins of neo-liberalism?
Why Next.js became so popular?
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