Practise One – Free Fridays
Lesson 24 DFQ: Post below what you think is most interesting from this example of AI doing a GBB.
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Practise One – Free Fridays
Lesson 24 DFQ: Post below what you think is most interesting from this example of AI doing a GBB.
Next Lesson: GBB Practise #2
The first thing I looked at is how good-bad and better points related to each other. I tried to identify if there was a pattern, i.e. one good point counteracted by an exact opposite and then that bad point counteracted by a better point. In a sense, I tried to decode the result in a ”linear” manner. To my amazement, I deduced that this was not the philosophy behind the GBB process, i.e. several ideas stem from a common core but in a very lateral manner. This says something to me- from the moment AI displayed divergent thinking, this would be something very plausible for the (human) user, and that there is a real and innovative skillset there that can be learnt and practised with great results.
That it generates balanced perspectives quickly without defending any of them. No ego, no sunk cost. Humans struggle to critique their own ideas — AI has no stake in the answer.
As someone with a background in ideation this sorts of project is in my wheelhouse and I would probably have come up with pretty much all of the things on the lists. In a day or so though ! So CHatGPT is awesome at getting stuff done so fast.I don’t see anything here though that is genuinely what I would call “lateral”. The “better” points sound “familiar” which was surprising, I was hoping for something more out of the box. But I guess that’s where we come in!
Most interesting to me is ChatGPT is in my opinion employing latterall thinking with many of the suggestions it has come up with.
One student commented that ChatGPT seems to lack focus in coming up with suggestions. I disagree that it is lacking focus. Rather it is leaving it’s box to come up with suggestions outside of it’s logic box.
This is exactly what lateral thinking is all about in my view.