Hi Grant! This hits home for me as an old retired football coach! Anything you expect to really and retain takes repetition and focus. Sometimes we had to run a play 50 times before we looked like we knew what we were doing, but that repetition is why we "learned" what eventually becomes second nature. Thanks for sharing this!
Recently, I have found AI to be a useful tool after I’ve done the grunt work of a first and second draft of a paper. I ask AI (I’ve been using Gemini, through school) to consider the prompt and my paper and provide suggestions as to where I need to further develop my ideas. When a list of suggestions appears on the right side of the screen, I go back to my paper and have a third, fourth or fifth go round to see how I can improve and make my paper more robust. I don’t know if this is considered having AI write the paper? I love going through the writing process but I also love having a second reader take a look. In this case it’s a computer reader. Good thing or bad thing?
Depending on what the essay is it’s OK to “converse” with AI for ideas.
Personally, I do not use AI for drafting these essays because originality is important to me, and the “suggestions” AI makes is based on the same corpus of pre-training data that everyone else has access to. The only way to produce truly unique writing is with a human mind
Also writing is learning for me. I value learning the things I write about. The more I wrestle with an idea as I write and re-write, I solidify those ideas into permanent memory
Hi Grant - should have checked my grammar before sending :). Anything we expect to "LEARN" and retain......
Hi Grant! This hits home for me as an old retired football coach! Anything you expect to really and retain takes repetition and focus. Sometimes we had to run a play 50 times before we looked like we knew what we were doing, but that repetition is why we "learned" what eventually becomes second nature. Thanks for sharing this!
Hey Coach Maupin - well said! Been thinking a lot about repetition when it comes to marriage too…
Recently, I have found AI to be a useful tool after I’ve done the grunt work of a first and second draft of a paper. I ask AI (I’ve been using Gemini, through school) to consider the prompt and my paper and provide suggestions as to where I need to further develop my ideas. When a list of suggestions appears on the right side of the screen, I go back to my paper and have a third, fourth or fifth go round to see how I can improve and make my paper more robust. I don’t know if this is considered having AI write the paper? I love going through the writing process but I also love having a second reader take a look. In this case it’s a computer reader. Good thing or bad thing?
Depending on what the essay is it’s OK to “converse” with AI for ideas.
Personally, I do not use AI for drafting these essays because originality is important to me, and the “suggestions” AI makes is based on the same corpus of pre-training data that everyone else has access to. The only way to produce truly unique writing is with a human mind
Also writing is learning for me. I value learning the things I write about. The more I wrestle with an idea as I write and re-write, I solidify those ideas into permanent memory