Tag: Ethan Mollick
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Ezra Klein interview with Ethan Mollick on practical examples of generative AI
A conversation between Ezra Klein and Ethan Mollick, on the many practical examples of generative AI that exist today. If you’ve ever walked away from an interaction with any generative AI models feeling underwhelmed, and are uncertain what all the fuss is about, this conversation is for you.
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Ethan Mollick’s Complexifier GPT
in AIEthan Mollick’s Complexifier GPT that creates a flowchart for taking something simple and making it complicated.
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Should I be using GPT-4 instead of Claude?
in AIhttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-which-ai “GPT-4 is the most full-featured model. It has access to web browsing (so it is no longer stuck with just the knowledge it had at training), it is multimodal (which means it can “see” and listen to speech), it can create images, it can code and do data analysis, and it can talk back…
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“We have convinced well-organised sand to pretend to think like us”
These early days of AI are already absurd. Humans, walking and talking bags of water and trace chemicals that we are, have managed to convince well-organized sand to pretend to think like us. Ethan Mollick (2023-09-05). Embracing Weirdness: What It Means to Use AI as a (Writing) Tool.
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Link: Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the-jagged There’s a lot to think about in this post by Ethan Mollick, but here are some of my favourites points. “…consultants using ChatGPT-4 outperformed those who did not, by a lot. On every dimension. Every way we measured performance.” “…There is no instruction manual. On some tasks AI is immensely powerful, and on others…
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Resources for learning about AI
A few weeks ago someone asked me to point them towards a few resources they could use to learn about AI. I got a bit carried away, coming up with a few more than a few. I thought I’d share here as well. Note: I subscribe to many more podcasts, newsletters, and RSS feeds, some…