Auxiliary Lines | Is the true nature of the AI divide not 'prompting ability'?—The cruel reality and the one and only strategy for a turnaround.

April, May, and June.

The streets are overflowing with fresh new employees and students, and it is a season where an 'air of beginnings' drifts throughout society. Amidst all this, have you ever felt a “strange sense of discomfort”?

“From now on, it is the era of AI.”
“A mindset for mastering AI is important.”

Such words are flying about.
That is certainly true.

But even though everyone is supposed to be using the same latest AI tools, for some reason, a difference as vast as heaven and earth is emerging in the results.

“Even when I give instructions, the AI's answers are off-base.”
“I don't even know what to ask the AI; I can't find the words in the first place.”

The true nature of this difference is, in fact, not a 'difference in knowledge about AI'.
It may be a more fundamental and cruel difference in 'basic human ability'.

The cruel law of 'multiplication'

I am going to talk about something a bit harsh. AI is not a magician that 'adds' to your abilities. AI is a multiplication device that applies a coefficient to the raw material you possess.

If your 'ability to convey (verbalization skills)' or 'ability to receive (reading comprehension)' is '1', then even if you multiply it by the '100' coefficient that is AI, the result is '100'. However, what if the basic ability of that person sitting next to you is '10'? The result becomes '1000'.

The more AI spreads,
the more 'individual ability gaps' actually expand to a desperate degree.

No matter how excellent the information AI presents, if the 'vessel' you have to receive it is small, the information will spill out.

No matter how wonderful a text you try to make the AI write, if your instructions (prompts) do not have 'soul' in them, all that will be output is empty strings of characters.

Before the 'How' of using AI, if the OS of the 'Who' (the person using AI) is not updated, we will never be able to draw out the potential of AI.

The lost time for 'basic training'

"Even if you tell me that, I can't study Japanese language arts at this stage in my life." You might be thinking that. And that is a normal reaction.

In our school education, we were drilled with the "ability to memorize correct answers" alongside dozens of classmates. However, we have had surprisingly few opportunities to have our individual "thinking habits" or "distortions in verbalization" corrected.

With dozens of students for every one teacher, there was no room in the educational environment to address each person's "way of conveying" or "way of receiving" information.

As a result, we became adults without ever noticing how our communication is misaligned, and we have spent 3, 5, or 10 years accumulating that habit.

Past accumulation determines current ability. If that is the case, is it impossible to bridge this gap now? Is there no choice but to give up and say, "It's too late"?

No, this is where the story flips.
Because, in the modern age, we have "AI".

Hiring AI not as an "excellent secretary" but as a "personal coach"?

The true greatness of AI is not the speed of search or summarization. It is that it will be your sounding board 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, without ever making a sour face..

Until now, to train your "ability to convey and receive," you needed an excellent human mentor. However, finding such a person is difficult, and it also takes up their time.

But now, we have AI. Instead of making AI do the work, you make AI train "your abilities". This is the smartest way to use AI to survive in the coming era.

Here, I will introduce "two training menus" that you can start today.

MENU 1: "Metacognition" muscle training using a diary

It's not just any diary. You have the AI read the diary you wrote and receive "objective feedback."

[How to do it]

1. Write down the day's events, emotions, and thoughts in a notepad. (Short is fine, just get it all out)
   

2. Send it to the AI along with the following prompt (instruction).

By doing this for just a few days, your own thinking 'habits' and 'areas where you struggle to communicate' will become surprisingly visible.

MENU 2: AI Sparring Partner

If keeping a diary is too much trouble, just having a 'conversation' with an AI is fine. However, instead of talking aimlessly, ask it to 'analyze' you.

You can erase the word 'too late' from your dictionary.

'Training basic skills takes too much time.'
'I wish I had done this sooner.'

To those of you who feel this way, I leave you with these final words.
They are lines from a 70-year-old master thief in the manga 'Jijijii-GGG-'.

Doesn't that give you chills?!

Today is the youngest day of the rest of your life.
The very moment you realized the potential of 'AI x You' is your starting line.

For those of us who have acquired the ultimate partner (a sparring partner) in AI, there is no such thing as 'too late' anymore.

So, why not throw the ball called a prompt?

Because every time you receive the return, your 'human potential' is guaranteed to be polished.

The raw essence of thought:

This is the source material for this "Auxiliary Lines" article.
The hesitation and half-baked ideas behind the polished words can be found here☟

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