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Specific Humans + AI processes

The most valuable and useful Humans + AI workflows are highly specific, created for a particular context and outcome. One of the best ways to create your own workflows is to learn from interesting ones that others have created. Browse through this compilation to be inspired on what you can do.

GPT for interactive journaling

Resource: GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I’ve Ever Used by Dan Shipper

Entrepreneur and writer Dan Shipper shares how he has used GPT to make his journaling process closer to interacting with a coach or therapist than just writing thoughts.

In the article he shares the prompts he used for GPT to interact with him as Socrates, an Internal Family Systems expert, gratitude journal, and values coach.

Create mindmaps using generative AI

Resource: Mindmaps using ChatGPT and PlantUML by Aruva

Large Language Models in general only generate text. However they are able to create hierarchical concept structures that can be represented visually such as in mind maps. This article guides you through generating mind maps using ChatGPT using the PlantUML format.

This creates text that can be imported to and interpreted by simple visual software to display a mind map, even creating a meaningful color taxonomy for the concepts.

How to use ChatGPT as a muse

Resource: ChatGPT as muse, not oracle by Geoffrey Litt

What if we were to think of LLMs not as tools for answering questions, but as tools for asking us questions and inspiring our creativity? Could they serve as on-demand conversation partners for helping us to develop our best thoughts? As a creative muse?

See bottom of article for specific prompt techniques

Using AI for higher impact teaching

Resource: Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful by Ethan Mollick

Wharton business school professor Ethan Mollick has been prolific in experimenting with the use of AI in his classrooms. mandating its use for students in his classes.

In this article he summarizes what he has learned so far, including five strategies:

  • Generating multiple specific examples of concepts to help students understand
  • Generating a variety of explanations and step-by-step walkthroughs of concepts to suit individual students
  • Developing low-stakes tests that students can take to verify understanding and improve test-taking abilities
  • Generating questions for after each class to help teachers and students assess and test their understanding
  • Creating distributed practice exercises that help students regularly review ideas taught throughout the teaching period

Using AI to boost creativity

Resource: A prosthesis for imagination: Using AI to boost your creativity by Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick shares a variety of specific strategies and prompts to assist in the creative process, by generating many ideas for human filtering, specifically generating novel, diverse, and unusual ideas, and getting “unstuck” when beginning or in the process of writing articles or framing ideas. Also see his separate post on How to… use AI to unstick yourself.

Creating a flowchart with ChatGPT

Resource: Creating a flowchart with ChatGPT by AI Learning Hub

Simple instructions on how to get ChatGPT to create a flowchart in LaTex format for display.
Use: Overleaf LaTex editor