The difference between a useful AI response and a frustrating one comes down to context. The richer the context, the better the output. As a bonus, you waste less energy retrying queries until you stumble onto something that works. What We Get Wrong Most of us treat AI like a search engine. We type a question and hope for the best. When it doesn't work, we try again. Then again. And again. I've fired off five or six variations of the same vague prompt, each time missing the m

With so much AI-generated text around, certain patterns begin to stand out. Sentences flow smoothly but feel empty, transitions sound identical and the rhythm is consistent, yet the tone lacks life. Wikipedia recently published a guide titled Signs of AI Writing , created by the WikiProject AI Cleanup team. The page serves as a field guide, a reference for recognising linguistic traces left by large language models (LLMs). It provides useful insight for anyone who works with

You are probably wondering why I haven’t covered generative AI so far – it is because there are so many facets of Artificial Intelligence to cover and there is already so much information out there on this topic. But ‘prompted’ by a close friend I decided to create a very simple guide for getting started. Suggestions for useful prompts for ChatGPT - How do we get the best out of this technology? Generative AI is powerful, but it works best when we treat it not as a magic orac