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Special thanks to Quantz’s childhood friend, Elaine, for taking care of our exchange student, Miti, while we were on the road.
A few days after returning home, one of my hives looked like it was starting swarm.
Since I couldn’t get in touch with my bee mentor, I took a picture of the hive. Here’s what ChatGPT said:
I was greatly relieved by the response and started back into the house when I heard a very loud buzzing up in the trees.
Of course I knew the answer but I decided to ask one more time and here was the response.
The good news was that I was able to capture the runaway Queen and her 20,000 swarmers. You can see the capture if you click on the picture below.
The bigger lesson is a very helpful reminder that my technologist daughter reminds me of frequently:
AI is a great predictive tool designed to please you, not a definitive source of accurate answers. Let the user beware.
Tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others can be remarkably helpful for seniors when used the right way.
They can simplify confusing topics, help write emails, organize travel plans, summarize articles, generate healthy meal ideas, and explain complicated information on Medicare topics in plain English.
But like any powerful tool, they work best when used with a little caution: never share private financial or medical information, always double-check important facts, and remember that AI should support your judgment, not replace it.
With the help of my beekeeping mentor, we captured the swarm and the queen and set up two new hives at my buddy Joe’s house.
Joe is one of those people who never stops learning. He’s excited to be a newly minted beekeeper but smart enough to have already signed up for an in person beekeeping class.
Plus, he’ll use AI to augment his knowledge about the art of beekeeping and also to have fun. Isn’t this a great meme he created?
For the past eight years, every week, I sit down and personally write this weekly newsletter. But I leverage AI for summaries, suggestions, and to find source material.
AI is tool, but it only works well when you provide very specific prompts. Here is a link to a three minute video on how create helpful prompts.
Since my wife Q is still in Sicily visiting our Airman and his girlfriend for a couple more days, I make this prompt simple:
Quantz, please come home, we miss you!
To summarize best practices:
- Use AI like a helpful assistant, not the final word.
- Never enter private medical, financial, or personal information.
- Let it help you get organized and make confusing things easier to understand.
- Use it to brainstorm and think more clearly, but keep your own judgment switched on.
- Be cautious with medical, legal, and financial advice.
- AI can sound polished and confident even when it is flat wrong.
- The clearer your question, the better the result.
- AI is a tool to help you, not a relationship to replace people.
Used correctly, AI can be an amazing helper. Just remember, don’t surrender your judgement, your privacy, or your common sense or you’ll end up on a ladder chasing bees!
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