{"id":1221,"date":"2025-11-08T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:39:37","slug":"answer-or-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2025\/11\/08\/answer-or-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer or Knowledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What follows is a quotation from a recent article The Guardian<\/em> by Sophie McBain. She in turn quotes Michael Gerlich of the Centre for Strategic Corporate Foresight and Sustainability:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many researchers, Gerlich believes that, used in the right way, AI can make us cleverer and more creative – but the way most people use it produces bland, unimaginative, factually questionable work. One concern is the so-called “anchoring effect”. If you post a question to generative AI, the answer it gives you sets your brain on a certain mental path and makes you less likely to consider alternative approaches. “I always use the example: imagine a candle. Now, AI can help you improve the candle. It will be the brightest ever, burn the longest, be very cheap and amazing looking, but it will never develop into a lightbulb,” he says. To get from a candle to a lightbulb you need a human who is good at critical thinking, someone who might take a chaotic, unstructured, unpredictable approach to problem solving. When, as happen in many workplaces, companies roll out tools such as chatbot Copilot without offering decent AI training, they risk producing teams of candle-makers in a world that demands lightbulbs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowledge – having knowledge – is incredibly important, so that when you hear something that’s questionable or maybe fake, you think, “Wait a minute, that contradicts all the knowledge I have that says otherwise, right?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What follows is a quotation from a recent article The Guardian by Sophie McBain. She in turn quotes Michael Gerlich of the Centre for Strategic Corporate Foresight and Sustainability: Like many researchers, Gerlich believes that, used in the right way, AI can make us cleverer and more creative – but the way most people use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[96,19],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chris-armstrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}