In September I took part in a panel at the African Journalism Education Network conference. The most interesting moment came when members of the audience were asked if they didn’t use AI — and why.
Last month I wrote about destination and journey prompts, and the strategy of designing AI prompts to avoid deskilling. In some situations a third, hybrid approach can also be useful. In this post I explain how such hybrid destination-journey prompting works in practice, and where it might be most appropriate.
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In a previous post I explored how AI performed on data analysis tasks — and the importance of understanding the code that it used to do so. If you do understand code, here are some tips for using large language models (LLMs) for analysis — and addressing the risks of doing so.
Continue readingTools like ChatGPT might seem to speak your language, but they actually speak a language of probability and educated guesswork. You can make yourself better understood — and get more professional results — with a few simple prompting techniques. Here are the key ones to add to your toolkit. (also in Portuguese)
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