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Stop Using AI Like A Vending Machine

And use it like flint & steel instead

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Lance Cummings
May 02, 2023
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Prompt engineering isn’t just about getting AI to do what you want. It is about fostering interactions that encourage us to think and create in new ways.

It's about fluidly moving back and forth in a collaboration between human and machine.

To illustrate this, let me use a little poetry.

AI & the Surrealist Mind

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