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Ethan Mollick
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Professor @Wharton studying AI, innovation & startups. Democratizing education using tech Book: a.co/d/4VguzZz Substack: oneusefulthing.org
Philadelphia, PA
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Jun 4
    🚨I have a new book coming out October 20: Co-Existence! It is about how we live & work with AIs that are sometimes (but not always) smarter than we are. And it has a cool cover. You can pre-order: co-existence.ai And here is a post with context: oneusefulthing.org/p/co-existence…
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    Jan 24, 2022
    Here are the lighthouses of Europe. The map is even better than it might seem at first glance: the colors are the real colors, the patterns are the real patterns, and the size of the dots is the distance at which each light is visible. geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/
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    Mar 1, 2024
    |οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£ οΏ£| | This can | | hack AI | | now. | | οΌΏοΌΏοΌΏοΌΏοΌΏ_ | (\__/) || (β€’γ……β€’) || / γ€€ γ₯ Paper showing that ASCII art can get around AI guardrails. Its the return of 1980s hackers. arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11753…
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Jun 4, 2021
    One of my favorite scientific figures is this one of the entropy levels of 100 world cities by the orientation of streets. The cities with most ordered streets: Chicago, Miami, & Minneapolis. Most disordered: Charlotte, Sao Paulo, Rome & Singapore. Paper: appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.10…
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    Ethan Mollick
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    May 21, 2023
    Noise is a secret destroyer of productivity. It is secret because it impacts cognition, not effort, so we don’t notice, but a 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) lowers productivity by 5%. Noise is also greater in poorer neighborhoods... joshuatdean.com/wp-content/upl…
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Mar 14, 2023
    🀯🀯Well this is something else. GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass... The Bar Exam: 90% LSAT: 88% GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99% Every AP, the SAT...
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Jul 27, 2022
    Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.
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    Nov 26, 2022
    If you last checked in on AI image makers a month ago & thought β€œthat is a fun toy, but is far from useful…” Well, in just the last week or so two of the major AI systems updated. You can now generate a solid image in one try. For example, β€œotter on a plane using wifi” 1st try:
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Mar 30, 2023
    GPT-4 is so close to creating a universal educational simulator based on just a paragraph prompt. Take a look at this simulated negotiation, with grading and feedback. Prompt: "I want to do deliberate practice about how to conduct negotiations. You will be my negotiation
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Nov 10, 2022
    If you are out of ideas, go for a walk. This paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reasons are not fully clear, but there seem to be direct effects on the brain. apa.org/pubs/journals/…
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Apr 10, 2023
    This is quite the paper! It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town. Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valentine’s Day party) but the actions were rated more human than humans roleplaying. arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442…
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Nov 27, 2023
    It isn't just AI generated text that is starting to bleed over into search results. The main image if you do a Google search for Hawaiian singer Israel KamakawiwoΚ»ole (whose version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow you have probably hear) is a Midjourney creation right from Reddit.
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    Aug 10, 2022
    Birds give up the complexity of song for volume in noisy places - so they sing louder but less interesting (to both humans & mates) songs in cities. When traffic noise in San Francisco fell due to COVID, birds began to sing more complex, quieter songs like they did 50 years ago!
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    Ethan Mollick
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    Dec 17, 2022
    Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. tomlehrersongs.com
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