Using AI for Learning: Effective Communication Techniques

AI buddies excel at clarifying beginner concepts but can make mistakes, so seek additional resources for accuracy.

### Utilizing AI for Learning: Effective Strategies and Cautions
* 🤖 Engaging with AI tools like Bard or ChatGPT can **enhance your learning experience**, especially when seeking **clarification on complex topics**.
* 💬 If you encounter confusing information, it's advisable to **consult GitHub discussions or relevant forums** for additional insights.
* 📜 The importance of formatting questions correctly, such as using **backticks for code blocks**, helps AI understand your queries better.
* 🔍 As you delve deeper into advanced topics, being **specific with your questions** will yield **more accurate responses** from AI.
* ⚠ It's crucial to remember that AI can sometimes provide incorrect information, as seen when it incorrectly referred to a **non-existent "stored data variable."**
* 🌐 Utilizing various forums like Stack Exchange and Ethereum discussions can provide **alternative perspectives and solutions** to your questions.
* 💡 Embracing confusion as a part of the learning process indicates **critical thinking** and a **proactive approach** to understanding the subject matter.
* 📝 As you progress through the course, don't hesitate to ask for clarification on concepts, such as the **distinctions between similar terms**, to deepen your understanding.

now already here, you might actually start running into some questions, right? And we're going to get more and more advanced with this course, and you're going to have questions, which is a good thing. If you don't understand stuff, that means you're thinking critically and you're approaching the subject matter the right way. So, this is where we're going to jump into, again, doing a little bit of an AI chat example. So, for example, on this line, let's say you're a little bit confused, and you go, What's the difference between simple storage here and simple storage here? I don't understand. So, let's learn how to work with chat GBT or any AI buddy to ask them to help clarify. So, we're going to go ahead. I'm going to hit command A, or you can just highlight everything, command C to copy, or right-click copy. We'll go over to chat GBT, and in here, we're going to ask the question, Hi, I'm having a hard time, and let's zoom in, understanding the difference between the simple storage is on this line and

here's where we want to be very specific when we're talking with AIS. So, I'm going to hit shift enter so that it doesn't actually send the question to chat toptvt, but I'm going to put three back ticks, shift enter again, and actually, I said we're going to copy the whole thing, but let's just copy this single line and paste it in here, shift enter again, three back ticks again. Adding this delimiter tells chat to be T that this is a block of code, and it makes it easier for chat ubt to be able to understand that this is a block of code. Then I'll hit shift enter twice, and if you have a lot of code, you're not going to be able to copy your whole contract because a lot of these AIS can only understand so much in a question. But this is small enough that we can actually just go ahead and copy the whole thing, bring it back over to chat you T, and say, Here is my full code, and then we'll do again shift enter three.

back ticks shift enter paste shift enter read back text. So now we have a little AI prompt here that we can ask in chat. Should be team and I don't have this in here yet, but in the GitHub repo associated with this lesson, I will add this AI prompt in here. So let's go to the bottom and I was saying you need to use shift enter, but I guess you could just use enter. That's fine. Let's go ahead and click the send button and I'll send it the question. So now it'll start outputting here and let's see what it says. And this is where we can already start to see the power of these AI buddies as learning buddies. We see in the given code simple storage is a variable of type simple storage, which is a contract defined in simplestorage.s. Soul tells us what the line is doing. It clarifies the differences a little bit more and a lot of this beginner basic stuff. AIS are really good at once we get more and more advanced. AIS are going to start.

breaking apart, but at least for the beginning of this course, AIS are going to be incredibly helpful and incredibly good at explaining a lot of these. What we could do if we wanted to is we could also go ahead and copy this prompt. We can go over to something like Bard, paste it in here, and ask Bard the same thing. And here's already a good example of where an AI can get things wrong. If we scroll down, it's telling me you can use a simple storage variable to interact with the new simple storage contract. For example, you call the set function to set the value on the stored data variable, or you could call the get function to get the value of the stored date variable. There is no stored data variable, so I don't know where it's getting that from. So just remember, keep in mind that AIS can get things wrong, and then when they do, there are other forums that to use as well. Like I said, we're going to be learning about them as we go on, like Stack Exchange, Ethereum, Piranha, or like

I said, of course, the discussions Forum of this course. So, if Bard or chbt or whatever AI buddy you're working with gives you something confusing, be sure to go to the GitHub discussions or ask in one of these forms.

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Asking questions is a natural part of the learning process, especially as the material becomes more advanced.

It's important to think critically and seek clarification when confused.

Using AI tools like ChatGPT can be helpful for understanding concepts, such as the difference between similar terms or elements in the material.

Communicating with AI: Using Code Delimiters

Using three backticks as a delimiter helps AI understand blocks of code.

It's important to be specific when communicating with AI.

If the code is too long, it's better to copy and paste smaller sections.

AI systems are expected to be helpful in explaining concepts at the beginning of the course.

However, they can sometimes provide incorrect information, as seen in the example of a simple storage variable.

It's important to remember that AI can make mistakes, and there are other resources, like Stack Exchange and Ethereum, to consult for accurate information.

The course encourages using GitHub discussions or forums for clarification on confusing AI responses.

An AI prompt will be added to the GitHub repo for easy access.

The AI is effective in explaining basic concepts and clarifying code, making it a valuable learning buddy.