How I Use ChatGPT as an Intuition Engine

This approach works best as a complement to Google

Alberto Romero
5 min read3 days ago
The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli, 1781

I don’t use AI to write. I use it as an intuition engine.

A search engine like Google needs the exact query to find the right information. It acts as a web librarian. It knows where all the books are but without a title or the author’s name, it can’t help you. You can’t ask “What’s an old book about a guy who kills a woman and then regrets it?” and expect the right answer.

Google gives me the Highland Knights Series by Jennifer Haymore and The Collected Regrets Of Clover by Mikki Brammer. Both wrong.

ChatGPT gets it:

That’s what an intuition engine does best for me. It provides a likely answer to my unprecise query. It won’t always get it right (that’s why it’s just intuition and not telepathy) but it accepts a much wider range of queries than Google.¹ However, the secret to this approach is the uncanny synergy between intuition and search engines.

It’s not one or the other. It’s both together.

ChatGPT can’t search like Google (it doesn’t provide the entire pool of links…

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