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Marrying AI: A Humorous Look at the Future of Human-AI Collaboration
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Where do your best ideas come from? When you’re staring at a screen—or maybe when you’re walking by the river, lying under a tree, or sitting quietly with your thoughts?
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison—most of it in silence, isolation, and deep reflection. And yet, even in that solitude, he shaped the vision of a free South Africa. Why? Because creativity doesn’t always come from effort. It often comes from stillness. From conversation. From thinking with others.
And today, even if you’re sitting alone in a room, you don’t have to think alone.
Because now, AI can be your thought partner.
But here’s the secret: most people treat AI like a tool. They give it a task and wait for an answer. But what if you treated AI like a teammate?
Let me show you what that means.
A park ranger in the U.S. hated filling out paperwork to replace old carpet tiles. It used to take him two full days for each repair. So instead of just asking AI to write the form, he tried this:
“Act as a paperwork expert. Ask me one question at a time to gather everything needed to write a carpet tile replacement report. When you have enough, create the report in the official format.”
Within 45 minutes, he had a working tool that now saves thousands of hours across the entire park system.
No coding. No special software. Just a smart conversation.
Here’s the part that matters for you: AI can teach you how to use itself, if you prompt it the right way.
Try this:
“Hello AI, act as my assistant. Ask me questions—one at a time—about the most boring or repetitive task in my day. When you understand it, suggest two ways to automate or improve it—no code.”
The AI will interview you. It will listen. Learn your world. And offer tools you never thought possible.
That’s not using AI. That’s working with it.
But to unlock this power, you must bring your own experience, your own challenges, your own creativity. Like Mandela, who once said, “It always seems impossible until it is done.”
The future of creative problem-solving is not about brilliance—it’s about curiosity and courage.
So the next time you face a problem, don’t just ask AI for an answer.
Invite it to think with you.
Because in this age, working with AI is not just a skill—it’s a superpower.
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Mechanical/Solar Engineer, Prof. Oku Singer
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