{"id":2724,"date":"2025-10-23T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:46:41","slug":"our-friendly-tour-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/our-friendly-tour-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Our friendly tour guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From my point of view as a prof and as a writer\/editor, Ethan Mollick has been the best and most sensible guide through the world of AI since the dawn of ChatGPT. His article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneusefulthing.org\/p\/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-ai\">An Opinionated Guide to Using AI: What AI to Use in Late 2025<\/a>&#8221; is written in Mollick&#8217;s typical tone &#8211; by turns phlegmatic, upbeat, and skeptical. He wants to help you get down to business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The goal isn\u2019t to become an AI expert. It\u2019s to build intuition about what these systems can and can\u2019t do, because that intuition is what will matter as these tools keep evolving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future of AI isn\u2019t just about better models. It\u2019s about people figuring out what to do with them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read it and keep up to date.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneusefulthing.org\/p\/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-ai\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MollickGraphicOneUsefulThing.jpg?resize=640%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MollickGraphicOneUsefulThing.jpg?resize=1024%2C500&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MollickGraphicOneUsefulThing.jpg?resize=300%2C146&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MollickGraphicOneUsefulThing.jpg?resize=768%2C375&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MollickGraphicOneUsefulThing.jpg?resize=1536%2C750&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MollickGraphicOneUsefulThing.jpg?resize=2048%2C1000&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MollickGraphicOneUsefulThing.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MollickGraphicOneUsefulThing.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my point of view as a prof and as a writer\/editor, Ethan Mollick has been the best and most sensible guide through the world of AI since the dawn of ChatGPT. His article &#8220;An Opinionated Guide to Using AI: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/our-friendly-tour-guide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[132,42,43,139],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-ai","tag-for-educators","tag-for-students","tag-mollick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}