Artificial intelligence systems like [[GPT-4o|ChatGPT]] and [[Anthropic Claude|Claude]] are very capable when it comes to churning out unique ideas from a basic prompt. Their natural language generation abilities allow them to produce diverse suggestions that can spark new directions. Some ways an AI assistant can help ideate include: - Taking an initial concept or goal and providing spinoff ideas, iterations, and related concepts. - Providing novel analogies and parallels between different domains that humans might not think to connect. - Combining random stimuli, ingredients, or constraints to force new associations and lateral thinking. - Building on existing ideas by riffing on themes and taking them in unexpected directions. - Thinking broadly without getting bogged down in feasibility to stretch conceptual boundaries. - Providing "bad" or outrageous ideas to provoke debate and reconsider assumptions. The broad knowledge of AI systems lets them draw from vast sources of information. While the ideas still require human evaluation, AI provides a powerful brainstorming companion that excels at divergent thinking. With the right prompts, AIs like GPT-3 can produce idea variations and novel connections at scale. [[writer unblock]] < [[Hands-on LLMs]]/[[4 LLM Uses]] > [[summarize text and data]]