When Not to Use AI
What Work Should Be Left to Humans? Here's How I Decide.
When I’m beginning a long project, I sometimes imagine a dense and tangled jungle. Conceiving the work, planning it, and selling it are like a helicopter flight over that place. It’s easy from up there to note the big features and come up with a general plan. But the actual writing, I know, will be a walk through that jungle – hacking away through the dark and mosquito clouds, tripping over this vine, getting lost on that trail.
In flight mode you can think “it’s an article about how robotics and large language models can be combined.” The hard trek, on the other hand, is struggling to describe how deep learning works in just the right way to fit this particular paragraph. Do I understand it? Am I explaining it in enough detail? Am I going into too much detail? Wait, did I already describe this elsewhere? Didn’t I have a better metaphor written down somewhere in all this? Does this make any sense?
The jungle trek ta…