689: How to Use AI to Think Better, with José Antonio Bowen
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
José Antonio Bowen: Teaching With AI
José Antonio Bowen has won teaching awards at Stanford and Georgetown and is past president of Goucher College. He has written over 100 scholarly articles and has appeared as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, and others. He is the author of multiple books in higher education and is a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities. He is the author with C. Edward Watson of Teaching With AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning*.
AI will change how we work, but it’s also going to change how we think. In this conversation, José and I explore where to begin working with AI and why those who can use it will serve a critical role in shaping what’s next.
Key Points
- Physical maps make you smarter than GPS, but GPS is more practical for daily use. AI isn’t inherently good or bad, but like the internet, it will change how we work.
- AI will eliminate some jobs, but it will change every job. Those who can work with AI will replace those who can’t.
- Rather than thinking about creativity through the lens of responses from AI, focus on bringing creativity into your prompts.
- Most of the AI progress for companies is coming from non-tech folks that are figuring out how specific tasks get more efficient.
- AI is very good at some things and not good at others. You’ll discover how this relates to your work by experimenting with different prompts.
Resources Mentioned
- Teaching With AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning* by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
- Example AI Prompts by José Antonio Bowen
- The Human Side of Generative AI: Creating a Path to Productivity by Aaron De Smet, Sandra Durth, Bryan Hancock, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi, and Angelika Reich
- Moderna and OpenAI partner to Accelerate the Development of Life-Saving Treatments
- The State of AI in Early 2024: Gen AI Adoption Spikes and Starts to Generate Value by Alex Singla, Alexander Sukharevsky, Lareina Yee, Michael Chui, and Bryce Hall
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| 0:00.0 | AI will change how we work but it's also going to change how we think. |
| 0:04.4 | In this episode, where to begin working with AI and why those who use it |
| 0:09.4 | will shape what's next. |
| 0:11.2 | This is coaching for leaders episode 689. |
| 0:15.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:20.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:27.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:32.0 | Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:34.0 | They're made. |
| 0:35.0 | And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom |
| 0:38.0 | through insightful conversations. |
| 0:40.0 | A conversation that we've all been having a lot more of in the recent past is conversations about AI. |
| 0:47.0 | How we're going to use AI? What does it mean for the future of work? What does it mean for each of us and how we lead? |
| 0:53.3 | Today's guest has a quote from Marie Curie at the start of his book, who says, |
| 0:57.8 | nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. |
| 1:02.4 | Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less. |
| 1:06.5 | I'm so glad today to welcome an expert at AI and how we think about AI and creativity that will help us to do a better job of utilizing it well in our work. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm so pleased to introduce Jose Antonio Bowen. |
| 1:19.7 | He has won teaching awards at Stanford and Georgetown and is past president of Goucher College. |
| 1:24.6 | He has written over 100 scholarly articles and has appeared as a musician with Stan Gets, |
| 1:29.4 | Bobby McFerrin and others. |
| 1:31.0 | He is the author of multiple books in higher education and is a senior fellow |
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