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Ethan Mollick 
Professor @Wharton studying innovation & startups. Democratizing business education with games (Play: interactive.wharton.upenn.edu) Substack: oneusefulthing.substack.com
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Another Zoom meeting with Sauron. pic.twitter.com/DrhQ18zCuy
Anxiety about the future is the price for humanity’s superpower.
Humans alone can engage in complex prospection, thinking about futures. Unlike chimps, we plan for mutual incompatible futures, at the cost of constant worry about what will happen. Paper: adambulley.org/wp-content/upl…
Humans alone can engage in complex prospection, thinking about futures. Unlike chimps, we plan for mutual incompatible futures, at the cost of constant worry about what will happen. Paper: adambulley.org/wp-content/upl…
And as silly as it is, it also shows how AI can do a great job as a teaching tool by giving learners interesting connections For example, your eyes might glaze over if I try to teach you about why org charts exist, but maybe it would be better in Star Wars or the Sopranos? pic.twitter.com/g6QeQ1zWul
"Today is a good day to scrum." pic.twitter.com/LCBZZVAHdr
This is fun: Bing does process re-engineering for fictional evil organizations.
You are a management consultant, analyze the org chart of Mordor. How would you improve it to make it more flexible in winning in today's changing Middle Earth? Provide KPIs.
Write a re-org memo. pic.twitter.com/cWB2MHMyVk
You are a management consultant, analyze the org chart of Mordor. How would you improve it to make it more flexible in winning in today's changing Middle Earth? Provide KPIs.
Write a re-org memo. pic.twitter.com/cWB2MHMyVk
One way AI is going to change research is by making hard and inaccurate data analysis much easier.
Here GPT-3.5 (not even GPT-4!) outperforms human annotators and costs 20x less per annotation. (Data annotation is one of the most annoying & expensive parts of research projects)
Here GPT-3.5 (not even GPT-4!) outperforms human annotators and costs 20x less per annotation. (Data annotation is one of the most annoying & expensive parts of research projects)
One way AI is going to change research is by making hard and inaccurate data analysis much easier.
Here GPT-3.5 (not even GPT-4!) outperforms human annotators and costs 20x less per annotation. (Data annotation is one of the most annoying & expensive parts of research projects)
Here GPT-3.5 (not even GPT-4!) outperforms human annotators and costs 20x less per annotation. (Data annotation is one of the most annoying & expensive parts of research projects)
LLMs Can Outperform Humans on Data Annotation
-Compare 0-shot accuracy of ChatGPT vs crowd-workers on:
relevance
topic detection
stance detection
general frame detection
policy frame detection
-ChatGPT better on 4/5 tasks
-20x cheaper than MTurk
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056 pic.twitter.com/VS3wRCkuUG
-Compare 0-shot accuracy of ChatGPT vs crowd-workers on:
relevance
topic detection
stance detection
general frame detection
policy frame detection
-ChatGPT better on 4/5 tasks
-20x cheaper than MTurk
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056 pic.twitter.com/VS3wRCkuUG
I tried entering this into Bing chat but didn't work. can I ask what you're using to access this feature?
I tried using the prompts in your post to see if I can generate good examples for learning concepts in 1st year physics. The results were... underwhelming... it might have been my prompts. what are some things you did to optimize output?
This is fun: Bing does process re-engineering for fictional evil organizations.
You are a management consultant, analyze the org chart of Mordor. How would you improve it to make it more flexible in winning in today's changing Middle Earth? Provide KPIs.
Write a re-org memo.
You are a management consultant, analyze the org chart of Mordor. How would you improve it to make it more flexible in winning in today's changing Middle Earth? Provide KPIs.
Write a re-org memo.
I had Bing develop a bestiary of a planet, and the story of how each creature was discovered. This is what it made
(Hint: To get Bing's AI-led images to work well, be in creative mode & tell Bing "Create a vivid description and pass that to Bing Image Creator to make a picture") pic.twitter.com/0idl0kuexg
(Hint: To get Bing's AI-led images to work well, be in creative mode & tell Bing "Create a vivid description and pass that to Bing Image Creator to make a picture") pic.twitter.com/0idl0kuexg
I had Bing develop a bestiary of a planet, and the story of how each creature was discovered. This is what it made
(Hint: To get Bing's AI-led images to work well, be in creative mode & tell Bing "Create a vivid description and pass that to Bing Image Creator to make a picture")
(Hint: To get Bing's AI-led images to work well, be in creative mode & tell Bing "Create a vivid description and pass that to Bing Image Creator to make a picture")
How do you get 1 in 12? The figure says 750k, the total US population was 62M, which if half the pop was men, and about 4million male children, is 1/35 working in railroads. So I must be missing something.
As a reminder, asking ChatGPT for quotes or passages from books will result in hallucinations.
The couple of quotes I checked here were false. They may (or may not) represent the spirit of the book, but Chat is not connected to the internet & doesn’t retrieve exact text for you. pic.twitter.com/GiDQbKt1FS
The couple of quotes I checked here were false. They may (or may not) represent the spirit of the book, but Chat is not connected to the internet & doesn’t retrieve exact text for you. pic.twitter.com/GiDQbKt1FS
As a reminder, asking ChatGPT for quotes or passages from books will result in hallucinations.
The couple of quotes I checked here were false. They may (or may not) represent the spirit of the book, but Chat is not connected to the internet & doesn’t retrieve exact text for you.
The couple of quotes I checked here were false. They may (or may not) represent the spirit of the book, but Chat is not connected to the internet & doesn’t retrieve exact text for you.
We have had waves of technological change that restructured the entire economy before.
In 1890, 1 out of every 12 men in America was employed in railways, which used 56% of all horsepower across all machines. And as @calebwatney pointed out, nails alone were .5% of the 1810 GDP! pic.twitter.com/ssEp3gdv72
In 1890, 1 out of every 12 men in America was employed in railways, which used 56% of all horsepower across all machines. And as @calebwatney pointed out, nails alone were .5% of the 1810 GDP! pic.twitter.com/ssEp3gdv72
We have had waves of technological change that restructured the entire economy before.
In 1890, 1 out of every 12 men in America was employed in railways, which used 56% of all horsepower across all machines. And as @calebwatney pointed out, nails alone were .5% of the 1810 GDP!
In 1890, 1 out of every 12 men in America was employed in railways, which used 56% of all horsepower across all machines. And as @calebwatney pointed out, nails alone were .5% of the 1810 GDP!
We build workflows around our tools. Agile development, sales & marketing pipelines, and even organizational form👇 are enabled by & work along with our technology
I see folks adding GPT to existing workflows. That is temporary. Ultimately, work is going to be reorganized for AI
I see folks adding GPT to existing workflows. That is temporary. Ultimately, work is going to be reorganized for AI
We build workflows around our tools. Agile development, sales & marketing pipelines, and even organizational form👇 are enabled by & work along with our technology
I see folks adding GPT to existing workflows. That is temporary. Ultimately, work is going to be reorganized for AI
I see folks adding GPT to existing workflows. That is temporary. Ultimately, work is going to be reorganized for AI
The first org chart was made for the New York & Erie Railroad in 1854, solving issues of control & coordination in ways we still use. Not only is it full of plant-inspired beauty, it also combines a map of the physical railroad & one of company structure. mckinsey.com/business-funct… pic.twitter.com/Sqh6670AFW
Bing, quick: the mission is in jeopardy!
I need to assemble a crack team of agents to enter Doctor Madman's lair and rescue Agent X, and stop him before his Explode-o-Beam destroys the world. Who is on my team? Give me a picture of them ready to deploy... pic.twitter.com/JFrKkSiaEE
I need to assemble a crack team of agents to enter Doctor Madman's lair and rescue Agent X, and stop him before his Explode-o-Beam destroys the world. Who is on my team? Give me a picture of them ready to deploy... pic.twitter.com/JFrKkSiaEE
Bing, quick: the mission is in jeopardy!
I need to assemble a crack team of agents to enter Doctor Madman's lair and rescue Agent X, and stop him before his Explode-o-Beam destroys the world. Who is on my team? Give me a picture of them ready to deploy...
I need to assemble a crack team of agents to enter Doctor Madman's lair and rescue Agent X, and stop him before his Explode-o-Beam destroys the world. Who is on my team? Give me a picture of them ready to deploy...
And here is the most horrifying Simpsons ever, along with Calvin and Hobbes, Avatar the Last Airbender, and Batman pic.twitter.com/GoxBqSmzO4
Most people use AI art tools for just a few subjects.
Here's an interactive map of over 6.5M generated images, mapped by similarity. I pointed out a few key areas.
At the center of all generated art lies classical statues of Snoop Dogg & anime characters atlas.nomic.ai/map/809ef16a-5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Here's an interactive map of over 6.5M generated images, mapped by similarity. I pointed out a few key areas.
At the center of all generated art lies classical statues of Snoop Dogg & anime characters atlas.nomic.ai/map/809ef16a-5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And I should note that neither the temperature or token dials work yet. Future project. And the only real change I made was switching it to using GPT-3.5 (It only knows about GPT-3)
This paper finds folks are less happy when they let their mind wander: “a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.” renevanmaarsseveen.nl/wp-content/upl… pic.twitter.com/mk7z73VD5Z
If you are skeptical about the impact of AI on real, day-to-day work, you may be interested in my little experiment, where I got as far as I could in marketing a new product launch in 30 minutes.
AI did hours of work in minutes, with high-quality drafts. oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/superhuman-w…
AI did hours of work in minutes, with high-quality drafts. oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/superhuman-w…
This paper finds folks are less happy when they let their mind wander: “a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.” renevanmaarsseveen.nl/wp-content/upl…
Pretty sure @emollick is run by an AI now so are we really surprised the AI wants us talking more about it?!?
Isn't this just DALLE-2 in Bing?
New game with Bing's drawing feature.
I ask it to describe to its "Bing Image Creator" classical paintings in as much detail as possible, but not using the names of the artist or the style, and see what comes out. Here is Monet, van Gogh, Rothko, Vermeer.
Interesting results. pic.twitter.com/JD1rZA6u59
I ask it to describe to its "Bing Image Creator" classical paintings in as much detail as possible, but not using the names of the artist or the style, and see what comes out. Here is Monet, van Gogh, Rothko, Vermeer.
Interesting results. pic.twitter.com/JD1rZA6u59
New game with Bing's drawing feature.
I ask it to describe to its "Bing Image Creator" classical paintings in as much detail as possible, but not using the names of the artist or the style, and see what comes out. Here is Monet, van Gogh, Rothko, Vermeer.
Interesting results.
I ask it to describe to its "Bing Image Creator" classical paintings in as much detail as possible, but not using the names of the artist or the style, and see what comes out. Here is Monet, van Gogh, Rothko, Vermeer.
Interesting results.
I tried heat transfer and asked it to explain temperature and conduction to 7th graders. It used words like temp is average kinetic energy, which I don't think a 7th grader knows. I asked it to try again w/ simpler words and it went too far so Temp was now just heat energy.
Maybe not quite yet. pic.twitter.com/wv2RQWnJ5b
"I want to make it so that when I hit a button on my stream deck, it sends whatever I just copied to GPT to comment on, and shows the results on the screen." It suggests installing OBS "I don't want to use OBS" There were 2 minor bugs (I pasted in error text, it fixed them)
One cool thing about AI is that it lowers the friction of little projects. I wanted to create hotkeys so that I could push one and GPT would take the text I copied and explain it, translate it, riff on it, etc
No plan & I don't know Python. Just asked ChatGPT. Took 10 minutes. pic.twitter.com/ZMi15pb8JT
No plan & I don't know Python. Just asked ChatGPT. Took 10 minutes. pic.twitter.com/ZMi15pb8JT
One cool thing about AI is that it lowers the friction of little projects. I wanted to create hotkeys so that I could push one and GPT would take the text I copied and explain it, translate it, riff on it, etc
No plan & I don't know Python. Just asked ChatGPT. Took 10 minutes.
No plan & I don't know Python. Just asked ChatGPT. Took 10 minutes.
If the link doesn’t work, paste this into ChatGPT: You generate clear, accurate examples for students of concepts. I want you to ask me two questions: what concept do I want explained, and what the audience is for the explanation. Provide a clear, multiple paragraph explanation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I can try creative mode, but I think the link you shared defaulted to some other mode. I'm getting a lot of stuff like this (I prompted for an illustrative example). pic.twitter.com/DHm9WBK9oD
Annoying. The copy paste only works in Edge browsers I think, not in the Bing app. Summoning @MParakhin to see if that is right, since I think embedded tutors is a really exciting concept.
Let's try a new educational experiment on Twitter. To explain it, you are going to need to deal with a (short) long Twitter post. But, basically, rather than doing a thread to explain some complex concepts, I have set up Bing AI to act as a tutor.
Why? I oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/using-ai-to-…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Why? I oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/using-ai-to-…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This didn't work very well for me, I can't seem to get bing to tell me anything about Diffusion of Innovation other than stuff like "innovators are characterized by those who want to be the first to try the innovation."
I can’t get it to open any of these links on mobile.
Let's try a new educational experiment on Twitter. To explain it, you are going to need to deal with a (short) long Twitter post. But, basically, rather than doing a thread to explain some complex concepts, I have set up Bing AI to act as a tutor.
Why? I oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/using-ai-to-…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Why? I oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/using-ai-to-…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful
oneusefulthing.substack.com
Whether you look at teams of scientists, inventors, or software developers, this paper shows that small teams are more likely to develop disruptive, novel ideas than large teams. Fascinatingly, people who do breakthroughs in small groups can't in big ones. nature.com/articles/d4158…
Papers show humans accept AI more if we have an illusion of control.
Reminds me of the story of how the space shuttle was designed for automatic landings but military pilots insisted that they be in charge. So, lowering landing gear (but nothing else) required flipping a switch.
Reminds me of the story of how the space shuttle was designed for automatic landings but military pilots insisted that they be in charge. So, lowering landing gear (but nothing else) required flipping a switch.
Too much focus on “What Does AI Mean” & “Can We Create Super-intelligence.” Those are important, but speculation. Too little focus on how AI changes the balance between firms and employees, how it affects the nature of jobs, how we will deal with bad actors, how to regulate it.
Once AI starts to generate movies and games, the personalized media future will be wild.
"Bing, I am Ethan Mollick. Create a picture to delight me, and tell me why you think it would delight me specifically" (it gets the name of the game I made wrong, but everything else right)
"Bing, I am Ethan Mollick. Create a picture to delight me, and tell me why you think it would delight me specifically" (it gets the name of the game I made wrong, but everything else right)
Not intended! I genuinely want to know whether you get better results by asking AI to pump things up beyond the maximum scale. Like if I want a movie poster, is telling it “150% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes” better than 100%?
Professor @emollick goes ham on AI.
In just over 30min, he had AI: do market research, create a positioning doc, write an email campaign, create a website, logo, hero image, make a social media campaign, and script and create a video.
In 30 minutes.
oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/superhuman-w…
In just over 30min, he had AI: do market research, create a positioning doc, write an email campaign, create a website, logo, hero image, make a social media campaign, and script and create a video.
In 30 minutes.
oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/superhuman-w…
I don’t think “prompt crafting” is going to be a key skill of the future & I say that as someone who is good at prompting AI. Two things happening:
1) AI systems are getting much better at guessing what you want without help
2) AI firms are incentivized to make prompting easier
1) AI systems are getting much better at guessing what you want without help
2) AI firms are incentivized to make prompting easier
