14th October 2025, 7:30 AM
I find myself using ChatGPT more and more for getting information, but that's the extent to which I use AI.
I'm not really a fan of AI-generated content, so I don't ask it to create things for me, but I find it extremely helpful when I need some information about something. Its ability to quickly pull together information, summarize it and offer opinions and suggestions makes it like a supercharged search engine. The struggles of Googling something and not being able to find the answer you need are in the past when AI can give you information on pretty much anything you can think of.
But of course it's important to know its weaknesses. On a few occasions, I have caught ChatGPT making stuff up and giving me wrong answers. So when I ask it to solve a problem for me, I also follow up with a question asking why their solution is good. You can still benefit from the power of AI without losing your critical thinking skills if you remember not to blindly trust whatever ChatGPT tells you, and that's what I try to do.
I'm not really a fan of AI-generated content, so I don't ask it to create things for me, but I find it extremely helpful when I need some information about something. Its ability to quickly pull together information, summarize it and offer opinions and suggestions makes it like a supercharged search engine. The struggles of Googling something and not being able to find the answer you need are in the past when AI can give you information on pretty much anything you can think of.
But of course it's important to know its weaknesses. On a few occasions, I have caught ChatGPT making stuff up and giving me wrong answers. So when I ask it to solve a problem for me, I also follow up with a question asking why their solution is good. You can still benefit from the power of AI without losing your critical thinking skills if you remember not to blindly trust whatever ChatGPT tells you, and that's what I try to do.
