How to Use AI to Fuel Creativity instead of Destroying It

A few years ago, I discovered a tomato sauce recipe that was surprisingly simple: just canned tomatoes, butter, salt and an onion. It inspired me to experiment, adding this and that each time to see how the flavor changed. Today, I'd call myself an amateur sauce expert. I know exactly how long it needs to simmer, what shade of red signals it is ready and how to improvise with whatever is in the fridge.

As my kitchen exploits remind me, experimentation is part of learning. It wouldn't be the same if I'd just asked ChatGPT how to make sauce each time. I would be outsourcing my culinary creativity and losing the teachable moments that come from trial and error.

As New Yorker writer Joshua Rothman observed, "[I]t's becoming clear that artificial intelligence can relieve us of the burden of trying and trying again. AI systems make it trivially easy to take an existing thing and ask for a new iteration."

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