Document Note: Creativity gains from using AI are generally unrealized. Treating AI like a teammate rather than a tool is the main difference. Coach it. Mentor it. Have it ask you questions. Roleplay with it. Treat it similarly to how you would treat human teammates.
Summary: Jeremy Utley from Stanford University teaches how to collaborate with AI to enhance creativity. He emphasizes that treating AI as a teammate, rather than just a tool, leads to better results. Utley believes everyone has creative potential and should embrace AI to unlock it.
And in 45 minutes, he built a tool with natural language that saves him two days of work. Every day he makes a statement of work and then listen to this.
Someone got access to that tool and shared it across the other parks. There's about 430 parks in the service. The National Park Service is estimating that the tool that Adam built in 45 minutes is going to save the service 7000 days of human labor this year. That's the kind of impact that normal professionals can have, even without any technical ability, if only they're given very basic foundational training. (View Highlight)
And in 45 minutes, he built a tool with natural language that saves him two days of work. Every day he makes a statement of work and then listen to this.
Someone got access to that tool and shared it across the other parks. There's about 430 parks in the service. The National Park Service is estimating that the tool that Adam built in 45 minutes is going to save the service 7000 days of human labor this year. That's the kind of impact that normal professionals can have, even without any technical ability, if only they're given very basic foundational training. (View Highlight)
The research I'm familiar with suggests that while on the one hand, AI makes people 25% faster and 12% more work and 40% better quality, it's also true that less than 10% of working professionals
are deriving meaningful productivity gains from collaboration with AI. (View Highlight)
In fact, in many cases, the people that we studied, AI made them less creative. (View Highlight)
And what we found is the Outperformers had a fundamentally different orientation towards AI than the underperformers did, whereas the underperformers treated AI like a tool. The outperformers treated AI like a teammate, and shifting your orientation from tool to teammate changes everything
about the kinds of outcomes that you can achieve working with generative AI. (View Highlight)
