Artificial intelligence (AI) excels at teaching basic concepts, serving as a personalized tutor across various fields, including genealogy. In this way, AI can act as our tutor whether we are trying to learn terms and skills related to genealogy or to another part of our life.
Recently, when prompted, it did a nice job of explaining the Genealogical Proof Standards (GPS). I went a step further, requesting an example of the third step: analysis and correlation of information.
I appreciate how AI tools like ChatGPT provide quick responses to our specific questions. Searching for an example of genealogical analysis and correlation online would be time-consuming. But with AI, it’s quick!
Another benefit is that we can ask AI to make its response simpler or more advanced. For instance, I can request ChatGPT to simplify the explanation for a sixth grader’s understanding or to elaborate as if I were a college freshman. In this way, we can quickly generate, and even modify, the explanations and examples we need.
However, we must be cautious about AI’s potential inaccuracies, often referred to as “hallucinations.” ChatGPT is getting better in this regards, but we need to be cautious. AI tools like ChatGPT tend to provide less accurate responses to highly specific questions than to more general information and explanation requests.
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