
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

The main idea behind flipped classrooms is to maximize classroom time for active learning and critical thinking, while using at-home learning for content delivery.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
advanced chatbots that incorporated elements of machine learning were being developed. One of the most notorious was Tay, a creation of Microsoft in 2016. Tay was designed to mimic
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Let’s imagine that we want to come up with 20 ideas for marketing slogans for a new mail-order cheese shop. The AI can generate those for us, but we will get even better quality if we remember the principle of telling AI who it is: You are an expert at marketing. When asked to generate slogan ideas you come up with ideas that are different from eac
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book about generative AI, but I am very busy and don’t think I want to make such a large commitment. Can you reframe my failure to write a book as a loss rather than a default option? Make the framing vivid.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
When sudden inspiration would hit, and I was not near a computer, I would open up an AI app and use its voice recognition to dictate notes, having the AI organize them and email them to me to incorporate later.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
With AI, cheating is trivial. In fact, the core capabilities of AI seem almost built for cheating.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Centaur work has a clear line between person and machine, like the clear line between the human torso and horse body of the mythical centaur.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
The attention mechanism helps solve this problem by allowing the AI model to weigh the importance of different words or phrases in a block of text. By focusing on the most relevant parts of the text, Transformers can produce more context-aware and coherent writing compared to earlier predictive AIs.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Tell me a good analogy for an AI tutor.