The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

Microsoft Research Forum | Episode 2 | March 5, 2024

Lev Tankelevitch explored how metacognition—the psychological capacity to monitor and regulate one’s cognitive processes—provides a valuable perspective for comprehending and addressing the usability challenges of generative AI systems around prompting, assessing and relying on outputs, and workflow optimization.

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Series:: Microsoft Research Forum
Date:: March 5, 2024

- Lev Tankelevitch
  
  Senior Researcher
Research Area
- Artificial intelligence
Research Lab
- Microsoft Research Lab - Cambridge
Project
- Tools for Thought
- Calc Intelligence
Event
- Microsoft at CHI 2024
- Microsoft Research Forum | Episode 2
Publication
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
- "What It Wants Me To Say": Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models

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