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Re:Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination by Swizec on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:13PM (#44242537)
> you could "just ask the question yourself."

Just like googling, AIing is a skill. You have to know how to evaluate and judge AI responses. Even how to ask the right questions.

Especially asking the right questions is harder than people realize. You see this difference in human managers where some are able to get good results and others aren’t, even when given the same underlying team.

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Re:Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination by multjoy on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:30AM (#44245105)
If you don’t know the answers, how can you judge the machine output?
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Re:Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination by aydyn on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:50AM (#44245205)
A lot of inquiries are like hash functions. Hard to find, easy to verify.
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Re:Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination by multjoy on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @04:36AM (#44245461)
“Siri, show me an example of overconfidence”
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Re:Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination by DennisP on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:13AM (#44275646)
You have to know how to evaluate and judge articles on the internet, too.

Prompt engineering might not be something people do for much longer:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-engineering-is-dead

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