The development of artificial intelligence requires asking the right questions
If you can skillfully ask the required questions to artificial intelligence, it will help any researcher view problems from a new perspective, save you time, and become a true intellectual assistant rather than just a text generator.
"Want to ask something..." - this is how the chatbot window in the browser displays. The ability to clearly express your request (prompt) to artificial intelligence is almost like a "superpower" for any professional. Artificial intelligence systems will complete given tasks, write texts, search and translate information, and provide advice. However, in this case, there is a high risk of professionals' own abilities deteriorating. How can we use artificial intelligence without harming ourselves, and ideally not harming our employer's interests, but instead bringing benefits? Not from a tactical level, but from a strategic one? This is the main question that professional groups still need to find answers to.
To prevent over-attachment to artificial intelligence from "smothering" all the good things within us, we need to know how to use its capabilities to enhance our own abilities. "Be close to friends, and closer to artificial intelligence."
If you carefully observe the world around you, you will find that artificial intelligence has almost been integrated into every aspect of life. Algorithms help us every day. Primary and secondary school students and university students use artificial intelligence to search for and analyze information, create presentations and charts. It helps programmers write code, increasing work speed by hundreds of times. Specialized medical programs act as digital assistants when diagnosing and developing treatment plans. On production lines, artificial intelligence is used for quality control and label printing. For law enforcement, "safe city" systems can now indicate areas with serious crime situations and help allocate police resources. Finally, when we take a taxi or use a navigator, we are already using artificial intelligence to plan the best route from home to work.
But in any case, we should not use artificial intelligence applications to generate final original texts, as the only way to search for information, or to complete tasks that require responsibility, critical thinking, and human judgment. Otherwise, this could lead to a loss of skills, and work results would be monotonous. Ultimately, we would become completely dependent technological "robots." What if someone who hasn't written by hand for years is "disconnected from technology"? He would probably have difficulty writing something valuable.
Trained individuals or those with keen insight can easily detect the language structures and techniques used by artificial intelligence systems. Algorithms fill content with generic statements, tending towards basic structures - expressions like "not only... but also...", and monotonous telegraph-style rhythms. Generative artificial intelligence has no soul; it is simply a "large meat grinder," where people feed all the data on the internet into it, repeatedly process it, and finally produce something "ordinary," "insincere," and "unattractive."
Although chatbots respond more meaningfully to us, neural networks do not truly understand us in a broad sense - they only pretend to understand. When we input prompts, artificial intelligence sees them as numbers. Neural networks try to find where these numbers have appeared before in their memory and what logic they formed to give us a suitable answer.
Artificial intelligence is more advanced than the T9 input method on your phone, but it is better at guessing words. But you would never ask the T9 input method how to develop a new marketing strategy for your company, would you?
The main principle to prevent deterioration is - don't let the answers from artificial intelligence replace your own thoughts. There is no need to generate the final product, meaning you shouldn't entrust the entire creation to large language models. This step may not be noticed by your colleagues, superiors, or other end users, but it will be detected by specialized content detection systems, which are also continuously evolving. Although careful readers or anti-plagiarism systems may not always successfully identify generated texts, the most important thing is - you will lose your unique style, or you may not even form your own style.
If you see a perfect and smooth foreign language text with no errors, it is either written by a meticulous multilingual user or the work of a lazy person. Just ask a few relevant questions directly, and you can find out whether the real author is him or the program.
Correct questions for artificial intelligence
On one hand, the assessment methods of the education system must change. On the other hand, we must skillfully integrate artificial intelligence as an auxiliary tool into the teaching process.
The overall goal is to gain "superpowers" from artificial intelligence, but not to hand over the things that make us irreplaceable - the human creative essence. For this, we need to master the most important art field of the 21st century - "the art of prompts," in other words, the ability to ask the right questions to artificial intelligence.
A prompt is a text request that a user inputs into an artificial intelligence system (such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek, or GigaChat) in order to obtain the desired answer. If you can skillfully organize the questions and formulate detailed instructions, artificial intelligence will provide richer answers. This means it can save you time, help you view problems from a new perspective, and become a true intellectual assistant rather than just a text generator.
Today, professionals who can quickly harness the rapid popularization of artificial intelligence and turn it into a growth resource are beginning to emerge. This is particularly evident in the scientific field, which requires processing massive amounts of information and finding new methods. Scientists have learned to use artificial intelligence to expand their abilities while not losing their individuality. Their experience may be helpful to other professionals engaged in research or writing complex texts.
In the recent manual released by ANO "Collaboration Laboratory," Russian scientists gradually share methods of using artificial intelligence tools to write texts, search for information, collect and process data, and perform visualizations. Especially valuable is that, in addition to methods of using artificial intelligence for research, the authors also provide ready-made examples of prompts, which people can copy from the textbook website and use immediately.
A critical attitude towards artificial intelligence should not hinder our progress - we can take useful things from it, while not forgetting ethics (the textbook also has several chapters dedicated to the biases and ethical use of artificial intelligence in scientific research).
Careers related to artificial intelligence are rapidly becoming popular, and the demand for artificial intelligence operation skills in the labor market will continue to grow. This not only involves engineers and neural network developers, but also digital medical experts, cyber ethics experts, bioinformaticians, virtual reality designers, digital education managers, and so on. Other professions will also undergo changes under the influence of artificial intelligence. People need continuous retraining, be prepared to face changes, and learn artificial intelligence literacy. Considering the extension of lifespan, we may switch careers multiple times in our lives.
We should regard the capabilities of artificial intelligence as working with robot partners, rather than a scenario where we lazily sit on the couch while robots do the work for us. Its advantages lie in speed, systematicness, and analytical capabilities, while our advantages lie in thinking, choice, and accountability. Strategically, artificial intelligence should enhance our abilities and inspire us to achieve new accomplishments; tactically, it should not replace the results themselves, but help us free up time and resources to consciously and creatively achieve results.
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