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The divide between AI and humans creates a striking paradox. As Tyler puts it: "On one hand the AIs are getting so much better, so learn how to use the AIs. On the other hand, the AIs are getting so much better, so invest in these other things that aren't AI—pure networks. You've gotta do both."
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9) Editing trick: Try running your writing through AI and asking what some people might find obnoxious. It’s a surprisingly powerful editing trick. 10) When prompting AI, put humans out of your mind and imagine you're talking to an alien or a non-human animal.
As Ethan said a year ago, it takes 10 hours of monkeying around to get into it. But I think a good AI executive training program can dramatically shorten the window, assuming a growth mindset on the exec’s part. I ran into a retired architect the other day who was bemoaning wanting to work in retirement but he had never learned CAD-CAM! Now he’s... See more
Ethan Mollick • Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
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youtube.comLoneliness isn’t just making us unhappy, it’s silently killing us: Social isolation is as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. If the situation is so critical, why aren’t we doing more to fix it? Because we’ve been collectively ashamed to talk about loneliness . Our silence has incubated one of the most insidious crises our society has to face.... See more
The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong?
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Bestselling children's author Andy Stanton is known for his unconventional, absurdist stories. Skeptical that ChatGPT can mimic human creativity, he gives it a prompt about a blue whale with a tiny penis to test its capabilities. What follows is a surprising battle between Andy and ChatGPT to understand AI's limits. Andy presents the AI's narrative and his commentary in a metafictional journey exploring storytelling. The book provides a hopeful and hilarious meditation on AI, literature and human creativity, exploring whether AI can truly replace authors or match human spontaneity
While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the internet. This recursive loop, experimentally confirmed, erodes the true data landscape. Rare events vanish first. Models churn out likely sequences from the original pool while injecting their own... See more