Over the past few weeks, I have spent a lot of time reflecting on how I can customize Generative AI models to better help maintain and improve my critical thinking skills instead of just giving me (temporary) enhanced capabilities by doing congitive work on my behalf. That thread led me to the idea of a more holistic AI mentor assistant to help promote self-growth through self-reflection and deliberate practice and Socratic teaching techniques.
I fed my 10 page word document that went into extreme detail on my personalized AI assistant into Google NotebookLM to generate the attached podcast. I was impressed at the level of quality of the podcast generated even if there were some strange oddities like:
mispronounced iSAGE concept as “ice age”
I asked them to promote my iSAGE notes in a third person perspective but they ended up making it seem like the female AI host invented the notes and that my readers were interested in pursuing this contemplative practice, lol.
the hosts also fixed on certain areas of the document unnecessarily to comical levels..with the following note around “what would Hemingway do” that I stole from a recent Ethan Mollick substack post.
Additional Reading:
Know Thyself, Improve Thyself: Personalized LLMs for Self-Knowledge and Moral Enhancement
Rage Against the Authority Machines: How to Design Artificial Moral Advisors for Moral Enhancement
The Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Meaningful Work
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