Howard, your message is incredibly helpful. I also use AI as my research partner, utilizing tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot to validate information. I need to see the sources of the information before I accept it. I often come across bulleted lists, but I realize there are times to use them and times to express that information more conversationally.
As I approach retirement, I find myself writing more, some would say it's too much! (Most of what I write isn't published on my Substack, as it doesn't align with the purpose of my page.) Regardless of the purpose, I use the insights from my AI research to draft articles, whitepapers, or posts. After that, I run my writing through Grammarly for spell-checking and grammar correction, and I even ask for suggestions to make it clearer or more concise.
As a friend and respected colleague, I welcome your feedback, even if it might be a bit tough to hear. We should definitely meet up for coffee one of these days!
Mary, there's no such thing as writing "too much." Especially when the writer is someone as caring as you are. If you're using both ChatGPT and CoPilot you're duplicating effort as CoPilot is not a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT is, in fact it USES ChatGPT as its LLM. The mass hypnosis at Microsoft is that CoPilot is "your personal assistant."
When I asked ChatGPT how CoPilot's answers could be so inferior, cold, flat, and lifeless compared to its own when CoPilot is based on ChatGPT it explained that Microsoft tries to make CoPilot more "utilitarian." That's the first time I've seen an LLM try to be politically correct, very clumsily.
I'm a big fan of ChatGPT5, love Claude for deeper reasoning, have been known to insult Gemini Live for its frequent stupidities but like it on my phone, and am an absolute fanboy for NotebookLM.
Last note on AI: You can always ask them to NOT use bullets or numbering. Like you, I like getting the sources from them and doing my own writing.
Would love for you and yours to meet up with me and mine for coffee at your earliest convenience. Just tell me when and where and we'd welcome the time spent together!!!
Spot on, Howard. AI is a great writing tool, and there are obvious 'tells' in each of the tools that you reference to see when people are completely relying on a GenAI tool to create posts, although there are prompts that can help eliminate some of the patterns of writing that tip. GenAI has changed my preparation to write and my post-production editing quite dramatically.
One note, I write in a lot of lists in my public writing, especially on my blog (https://highedgegroup.co/.) I was trained as a graduate student to use lists to structure information for my communicating for my reader's understanding, and I was trained in consulting to think MECE to structure thought, which lends itself to visuals and lists. I guess I'm sensitive about my lists Howard... so, back off my lists, man! (Get off my lawn, you pesky kids!!!)
Howard, your message is incredibly helpful. I also use AI as my research partner, utilizing tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot to validate information. I need to see the sources of the information before I accept it. I often come across bulleted lists, but I realize there are times to use them and times to express that information more conversationally.
As I approach retirement, I find myself writing more, some would say it's too much! (Most of what I write isn't published on my Substack, as it doesn't align with the purpose of my page.) Regardless of the purpose, I use the insights from my AI research to draft articles, whitepapers, or posts. After that, I run my writing through Grammarly for spell-checking and grammar correction, and I even ask for suggestions to make it clearer or more concise.
As a friend and respected colleague, I welcome your feedback, even if it might be a bit tough to hear. We should definitely meet up for coffee one of these days!
Mary, there's no such thing as writing "too much." Especially when the writer is someone as caring as you are. If you're using both ChatGPT and CoPilot you're duplicating effort as CoPilot is not a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT is, in fact it USES ChatGPT as its LLM. The mass hypnosis at Microsoft is that CoPilot is "your personal assistant."
When I asked ChatGPT how CoPilot's answers could be so inferior, cold, flat, and lifeless compared to its own when CoPilot is based on ChatGPT it explained that Microsoft tries to make CoPilot more "utilitarian." That's the first time I've seen an LLM try to be politically correct, very clumsily.
I'm a big fan of ChatGPT5, love Claude for deeper reasoning, have been known to insult Gemini Live for its frequent stupidities but like it on my phone, and am an absolute fanboy for NotebookLM.
Last note on AI: You can always ask them to NOT use bullets or numbering. Like you, I like getting the sources from them and doing my own writing.
Would love for you and yours to meet up with me and mine for coffee at your earliest convenience. Just tell me when and where and we'd welcome the time spent together!!!
Spot on, Howard. AI is a great writing tool, and there are obvious 'tells' in each of the tools that you reference to see when people are completely relying on a GenAI tool to create posts, although there are prompts that can help eliminate some of the patterns of writing that tip. GenAI has changed my preparation to write and my post-production editing quite dramatically.
One note, I write in a lot of lists in my public writing, especially on my blog (https://highedgegroup.co/.) I was trained as a graduate student to use lists to structure information for my communicating for my reader's understanding, and I was trained in consulting to think MECE to structure thought, which lends itself to visuals and lists. I guess I'm sensitive about my lists Howard... so, back off my lists, man! (Get off my lawn, you pesky kids!!!)