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• @richardlawler Richard Lawler on threads

  The strangest thing to me about Ethan Mollick is that if AI tools were effective in the way he says they are at summarizing and explaining information to help people learn new things Then why do we need Ethan Mollick to explain them?

• @richardlawler Richard Lawler on threads

  Mentioning devin ai without noting that it can't do what he claimed it does is odd.  The Devin ai wouldn't have fooled anyone since it doesn't have the capabilities it wrote about.  But mollick doesn't mention that — he never does. …

• @technicallymims Christopher Mims on threads

  I profiled @ethan_mollick and it was a lot of fun.  Philly in the springtime is gorgeous, and how many times in your life do you get to stand under a piece of the actual ENIAC while talking about the future of AI?

• @shantharmohan @shantharmohan on x

  “Every once in a while a surprising new technology comes along, and there are those who, quite unintentionally, happen to have spent their whole lives preparing for it,” writes Christopher Mims about Ethan Mollick Free to read: https://www.wsj.com/... #ai

• @abhishekn Abhishek Nagaraj on x

  Such a lovely profile of @emollick - from everything I know about him, it does a great job describing just how eclectic and nerdy his tastes are and yet how he manages to stay so on point and relevant. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @gregoates Greg Oates on x

  “Soon enough, AIs will be navigating the internet, and eventually our world, with as much autonomy as we're willing to give them.” https://www.wsj.com/...

• @wsj @wsj on x

  Ethan Mollick at the University of Pennsylvania has become the go-to AI expert for policymakers and corporate leaders alike. https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/...

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  I think too many people think only of AI use in places where errors are not tolerated. It isn't good at that. LLMs hallucinate & make mistakes. But for a huge amount of work, human error is tolerated, and the question is whether AIs (working with humans) make more or less...

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  A valuable thing that teachers and coaches do is provide frameworks for solving problems. LLMs are very good at frameworks: they “know” a lot of them, and they are excellent at applying them to your problem. Here's a little GPT that suggests & makes them: https://chat.openai.com/…

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  If AI really does plateau at 60-80th percentile of human ability (no sign it will/won't), the impacts may be stabilizing. Whatever you are best at (often what you enjoy most), you are likely to be better than an AI, but whatever you are not good at, AI can help fill in the gaps. …