AI - Using it in my job
Scenarios expand your thinking
You will think more broadly if you develop a range of possible outcomes, each backed by the sequence of events that would lead to them. The exercise is particularly valuable because of a human quirk that leads us to expect that the future will resemble the past and that change will occur only gradually. By demonstrati... See more
You will think more broadly if you develop a range of possible outcomes, each backed by the sequence of events that would lead to them. The exercise is particularly valuable because of a human quirk that leads us to expect that the future will resemble the past and that change will occur only gradually. By demonstrati... See more
The use and abuse of scenarios
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that people are engaging in what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief." This concept describes a participatory (rather than passive) cognitive or imaginative stance that we willingly and strategically adopt towards various media—be it AI, novels, movies, or even wrestling matches.
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Ethan Mollick • On speaking to AI
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Other examples include BNP Paribas, which this month announced it was in a partnership with model builder Mistral AI. TD Bank also said this month it was working with Cohere. Mousavizadeh said that the majority of banks are working with several model-makers on the market, including Meta Platforms’ Llama, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and Open... See more
Morgan Stanley Moves Forward on Homegrown AI - WSJ
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So, Apple decided to reduce the danger of misuse or error. They have turned Siri into a Copilot. You see these sorts of Copilots appearing in many products - very narrow AI systems designed to help with specific tasks. In doing so, they hide the weirder, riskier, and more powerful aspects of Large Language Models.
Ethan Mollick • On speaking to AI
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I love the future scenario planner gpt. I am giving a talk about the future of talent assessment and it provided me with some great insight. The theme of my talk is - we suck at prediction but it is an existential must for the collective human mind. And while we may suck at it, it inspires us to create. Even if we miss the mark, we end up creating ... See more
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
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I wrote a Python script a few weeks ago to get an AI agent to play a coach and another AI agent to play a coachee. The way they bounced off one another was a great insight on what refinements would enable AI to facilitate more resonant, higher fidelity coaching as opposed to a conversation driven by relevance and people's preferences.
Ethan Mollick • On speaking to AI
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That is why I suggest that people and organizations keep an “impossibility list” - things that their experiments have shown that AI can definitely not do today but which it can almost do. For example, no AI can create a satisfying puzzle or mystery for you to solve, but they are getting closer. When AI models are updated, test them on your impossib... See more
Ethan Mollick • Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
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To turn on artifacts, you simply have to click the initial in the bottom left, select feature preview, then turn on artifacts. Intuitive! For Code Interpreter, you have to remember to ask the AI to “use code” or sometimes it forgets
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
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Create an interactive simulation that explains the concepts behind Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions in an engaging way to build a working game that explains core concepts from the historian of science, someone pointed out (quite rightly) that the simulation did not take into account Kuhn’s view that scientific revolutions are not always valu... See more
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
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ChatGPT - The Four Futures Planner
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