Background
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The initial objective of this undertaking was to create a map visualization to contextualize one’s place in the vast world of Artificial Intelligence, in other words to understand which branches of AI one’s tradecraft are plied on. The immediate realization was that there was more than a simple visual aid to be achieved here, that by leaning into Generative AI for guidance that one could lean on this domain of AI, if only for a project of limited scope.
What follows is the distillation of a lengthy series of chats with a commonly available Generative AI tool that took place over several weeks, which was then re-organized and spliced into a structured interview, which is part summarized, and part quoted directly (italicized). In retrospect, it would have been more efficient to have rigidly defined the boundaries of the project and planned interactions with Generative AI before actually engaging it. Doing so would have avoided the chasing of so many rabbits but that would have come at a cost.
The drive toward being as efficient as possible with one’s time in pursuit of an objective should include some accounting for the value of the resulting ideation that comes from freestyle, open-ended conversation. There are precedents acknowledging this value proposition, such as companies permitting some percentage of employee or project time being allocated to creativity, the seed corn of innovation. The water cooler effect of Generative AI must be acknowledged in this instance as it proved invaluable.
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