No doubt, generative AI is changing the face of speculative family conversations around coffee on a lazy, snowy Sunday morning. It has in our house. I’ve been encouraging the family to learn how to apply generative AI when doing research

Always on the lookout for real world examples and learning opportunities, we were having a lazy, Sunday morning chat when a very deep question was posed by the 10-year old. What an excellent time to demonstrate the true power of AI for doing deep research!

With very little effort we had a high confidence answer to her question!

Related, I really like what Perplexity is doing and I’ve been encouraging the family to learn how to apply it to doing research and getting answers to questions. Providing the citations for the work it’s doing to generate its responses is incredibly helpful and goes a long way towards allowing you to vet the answers it’s giving you for correctness and truthfulness.

As I mentioned yesterday, I think being good with AI tools is fast emerging as a necessary skill and one that will separate the truly efficient and effective from the merely okay.