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Had an interesting exchange with roon of OpenAI last night over whether super intelligent AI would actually be able to navigate organizational challenges. @tszzl I think it is a reasonable argument to

I also agree with this comment that the current view of FDEs is likely too limited to actually catalyze organizational transformation. @emollick Are they doing org change, though? The army of forward

I think frontier model writing is good! It often has a sense of style & tone, variations in sentence structure & length, some great phrasing, etc But it also has some weak spots (fiction!) & clear tic

OpenAI contacted me to say “Study Mode is still live and accessible via /study and /learn shortcuts” so that’s good, although the official study mode page doesn’t mention that. (I don’t think slash co

The silent removal of Study Mode from ChatGPT is a big mistake (both Claude and Gemini still have theirs) We have enough evidence that using AI in assistant mode to study can hurt learning because it

Ethan Mollick discusses a tradeoff in OpenAI's newer realtime voice model, where improved capabilities require developers to revise prompts that were written for the previous version. The post highlig

OpenAI confirmed to Ethan Mollick that Study Mode remains active and can be accessed through the /study and /learn shortcuts, though this feature may not be widely known among general users. The acces

You will know that the AI labs believe in ASI when they disband their newly formed consulting (sorry “forward deployed engineering”) groups. As long as people are required to figure out how AI is usef

Enterprises are going to actually want a coherent roadmap for the development of tools like Codex and Cowork, so they can plan and train and scale their use. This conflicts with the Labs’ vision where

Haven’t tried this but it seems very neat… Yet all of the demos (except maybe one) are the model being fun and/or annoying by correcting or reminding in real time. There are obvious uses for this sort

It is one reason why I think the push for smaller, local models is more complicated than people think. If you want good answers, especially good answers to unexpected problems, frontier models will ge

One of the most important properties of LLMs that we take for granted is that newer, bigger models are just better at everything. The AI Labs are pouring effort into economically valuable fields like

Ethan Mollick discusses research findings showing that while improved prompting techniques provide significant benefits for AI model performance, the underlying model training remains the primary limi

The inability of AI models to produce creative variation is a huge gap. The fact that they generate similar ideas limits their ability to do science & the same-y writing limits their usefulness in man

This is going to get even worse as people realize that careful tuning in their prompts can make AI writing seem not like AI writing to readers. We expect word counts to align, in some way, with thinki

This seems like a critical reason to open up about AI use in academia. Scholars are using old AI models, badly, and not talking about it. New models hallucinate very few citations, and good agentic ha

Apple may be planning to role out its updated Siri based on 2024's vision at the moment when Claude Code and Codex (also OpenClaw) can increasingly do the actual assistant thing: read my emails & cale

I suspect there was a moment, probably 2022-2023, where anything you wrote publicly about AI that was popular is likely to still have influence over current models. Since then, the open internet has b

I think we are past the point where “only people in San Francisco get AI” is true. AI users are in every industry & they have access to the same models. SF is far from the epicenter of many of the cra

I was talking to a room of senior accountants a couple months ago and 10% had OpenClaw installations. Of course there are far more non-users and firms lag behind their people, but there is a sort of S

The personification of Claude — in name (the only AI with a human one), in training, in Anthropic’s philosophy (see Claude Constitution), in fanfiction (see the Claude cartoons), etc — feels quite con

As much as the state of benchmarks in AI is flawed, it is so much easier to track AI progress than robotics. Not sure what you can make of all the videos of robots running races or doing laundry - are

Huh. We evaluated an early version of Claude Mythos Preview for risk assessment during a limited window in March 2026. We estimated a 50%-time-horizon of at least 16hrs (95% CI 8.5hrs to 55hrs) on our

The great thing is that the names are so baffling that the most important models OpenAI released were names davinci-002, GPT-3.5, GPT-4, o1-preview, o3, GPT-5 Pro, and you would never know the ways th

Ethan Mollick argues that threshold-based benchmarks—binary evaluations of whether AI systems can accomplish specific tasks (such as making good coffee)—are inadequate measures of AI progress because

This post argues that despite technological capability, regulatory, economic, and social barriers will prevent AI systems from completely displacing all US white-collar workers by 2035, even if such m

And also I realize that “Mythos as hype” means two different things to different groups. For insiders, it means “Mythos was not a magical step-change in AI ability.” For outsiders, it means “Mythos co

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I have always found it charming that the fourth, fifth and sixth derivatives of position are snap, crackle, and pop. Because I could, I asked Codex to throw together a little simulation so you can pla

I keep coming back to this tweet. The phrase “the list” is doing the heavy lifting. The post deserves the weight. It is a load bearing post. You should add the phrase “doing real work” to the list of

Ethan Mollick cautions against using an unspecified resource (likely an AI tool or educational material) for high school physics instruction without thorough verification, noting he only conducted cur

I realize that “Mythos as hype” means two different things to different groups. For insiders, it means “Mythos was not a magical step-change in AI ability.” For outsiders, it means “Mythos couldn’t re

Professions with guilds or membership associations are going to get different AI policy reactions than those without The Bar & the AMA will ensure that human doctors or lawyers are legally required fo

Unions often push back against automation, often successfully (see self-driving car fights). But just wait until you see what happens when highly connected, wealthy, and organized white collar workers

Very good hire by DeepMind. Some news: This week I am starting at @GoogleDeepMind as Director of AGI Economics on @shanelegg’s team. I will be joining the other amazing cross-disciplinary scientists r

Don’t let the exponential gains in ability fool you: there are fewer real grand plans in AI (or frankly any field of human endeavor) than you think. Companies are pivoting as the market changes, somet

Every so often I think about how, in 2022, for $24B we could had 'prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease' so they can be deployed in 100 days if ther

This post likely features Grok (Elon Musk's AI chatbot) being used to explain complex concepts or vocabulary terms in simplified language for readers who prefer not to independently research definitio

If Llama 4 didn’t fail, if Microsoft had pulled Sydney after the Roose article, if New Sonnet hadn’t been so good, if Orion hadn’t been so meh, if the leadership change at OpenAI had happened, if a re

Ethan Mollick asked Grok (xAI's AI assistant) to explain various cultural, historical, or technical references, likely exploring Grok's knowledge comprehension and ability to contextualize diverse top

It is remarkable how quickly this market shook out. Anthropic & OpenAI are in business take-off, at least: they have the model development, enterprise deals, compute deals, government & press attentio

Labs; “we will have a nation of geniuses in a data center by 2028, capable of beating humans at every task, but you will need to hire our newly trained forward-deployed engineers for a six month engag

OpenAI for Excel is quite useful (as is Claude for Excel), so it is surprising, that, unlike Claude, there is no OpenAI for PowerPoint, especially because it is where OpenAI has a big advantage: Image

Pareidolia, but for text. Apophenia, but for latent spaces. Its no wonder that our relationship to LLMs is so confusing. It's hard enough to resist apophenia in normal life, in such high dimensional l

Seems like a massively underinvested area in the “pivot to enterprise.” The fact that the Labs are building their own deployment consultancies (which will take a long time) suggests a failure of imagi

“She said the theme of this party is the industrial age. And you came in dressed like a train wreck.” Asking AIs to think of the equivalent to this Hold Steady lyric, but for AI. Claude was the clear