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This post appears to discuss narrative and storytelling techniques that rely on implied catastrophes, unspoken tensions, and shared understanding between author and audience—elements that create drama

ASI* is GPT-X deciding I want to throw a party for myself and every human on earth will get a personalized email them that will help them in some way, and also here is a cure for a bunch of diseases *

For better or worse, regulation for closed-source models served by a few (quite large) companies is easy. It is not as easy to imagine how you regulate open-source models that can be served by a range

Forget goblins, things that GPT-5.5 really likes in its fiction: lighthouses, the ocean, maps, bells, clock towers with bells that ring impossible times, Mira Vale, resonances and echoes (Claude and G

I think the Gemini chatbot has all the pieces to be a useful tool, but struggles to put it all together. It still doesn't seem to know what files it can create or how its tools work together. It also

Illustration of the jagged frontier as a PR thing: 1) People had to ask the AI for a party date 2) People wrote the social media posts about the party, set up the invite list 3) People had to solicit

Increasingly, I think, we will see a gap between what you can do with frontier model APIs & what you can do with the native apps from the frontier labs (Codex, Claude Code). Models developed and train

It is really interesting that Microsoft and OpenAI have access to the exact same models at the exact same time, and they have done such different things with them. A rare pure experiment with a no-nam

'Load bearing,' 'I keep coming back to,' 'Not X, but Y' A curse of using AI a lot is that you realize how much of the writing around you is just AI, now People who don't use AI have been unable to ide

Mythos seems to be a very capable model based on available information, but it is not a cybersecurity model - it is an advanced general purpose model that happens to be good at cyber because it is goo

Gemini now can create documents, and it is a nice start, but not up to the frontier yet, as you can see from my 'LBO of Hogwarts' test. PowerPoints are substantially worse than NotebookLM, spreadsheet

Its a bit frustrating, because Gemini 3.1 Pro is an excellent model and can deliver really good results. But here is GPT-5.5 Pro for comparison. Sadly, it took this assignment very seriously and ethic

One reason I don’t think “judgment” is going to be a distinctly human role in working with AI is that the most recent agentic models have gotten quite good at some types of judgment. You can’t do the

Yes, just having students “use AI to study” hurts learning (a helpful assistant is not a tutor), but using AI prompted to act like a tutor, especially with teacher support, seems to have large positiv

A big problem with all AI at work punditry right now is that it all rests on data from the pre-agentic era (which is basically just now ending) and we have very little information about what has been

An easy way to get a team engaged with AI is just to build the thing you are talking about in the meeting during the meeting using Codex or Claude Code. At worst, it fails in ways that can be construc

I have been playing with the new Outlook agent, and it is fine, but really awkward to use, since you have to ask for things in a chatbot window, then go to your drafts, etc. And Claude Cowork does the

This post likely discusses how AI systems, particularly language models, can implicitly agree to tasks or commitments during conversations without formally recording or tracking these obligations, whi

This post criticizes Microsoft's approach to integrating AI assistants into Outlook, expressing frustration that the AI chatbot has limited functionality and capabilities despite Microsoft's ownership

Post-agentic: Encouraging firms to use agentic tools (Claude Code/Lovable/N8N...) markedly improves startup growth & productivity. Pre-agentic: Encouraging firms to use a GPT4 advisor has uneven effec

The new LLM trained only on pre-1931 text is small enough that it can potentially run on device, so, with the right tools, you can get a fully vintage version of Siri, but from the era of Downton Abbe

This is an incredibly cool experiment It is also fascinating that the model knows information up to 1931, but, at least in some science topics, seems very stuck in the early 1900s. For example, it def

This is the tool: https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2048882283164389661?s=20 Agent Mode is here in Outlook! Copilot can now help run your inbox and calendar, triaging emails, rescheduling meetings, an

This post likely discusses how to prompt or configure an AI coding agent to incorporate unexpected or whimsical elements like goblins into its outputs, possibly as part of a broader discussion about A

This post describes a personal AI setup called 'OpenClaw' that runs on the talkie-1930-13b-base model and is accessed via a custom Telegram interface, with the author humorously clarifying this is not

Yes this is a line from the system prompt. gpt-5.5 prompt for codex seems to have a duplicated line trying to get it to not talk about creatures? Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls,

Every AI discussion ultimately rests on two questions: how good can AI get? And how fast? They are predictions about the s-curve shape. Everything else (job impact, potential risks, etc.) is downstrea

GPT-5.5 in Codex made a surprisingly solid table top RPG game masters guide & player guide, which it 'playtested.' It leans into the storytelling aspect, and still has some very LLM-y elements, but it

This post presents an overview of sociological theories regarding professional work and expertise, using charcuterie as an extended metaphor or analogy to explain complex concepts. The humorous approa

The only way to fully appreciate the jaggedness of the AI frontier is up close. When you use it for a task you know well you find tons of tiny points where AI requires human help. Some are tedious (mo

This paper examines how organizational incentive structures often prioritize quantitative growth and output volume over quality improvements, creating misaligned motivations that can undermine long-te

Very cool analysis of the submissions to a major management journal that shows how much the system of science, built for humans, is under strain as a result of AI. AI can be used to do better science

A thing I see missing from AI job debates is that as jobs are disrupted by AI, professions will compete over new boundaries Abbot's System of Professions is a good read on what happens historically. H

Fieri Iussit https://x.com/emollick/status/1969993499157446943?s=20 My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase 'Fieri Iussit,' which means 'commanded to be made,' a co

Two lessons: 1) Economists are currently very dominant in the discussion over AI and job transformation, but sociology has a lot to add 2) You can kind of create any sort of explainer image you want r

Whether there or more or less jobs, they will certainly change, and professions will compete to gain jurisdiction over valuable ones, in large part through regulation, requiring credentials, and appea

Groups and movements that can build & get implemented clear policies will have an outsized impact on the chances that AI is used in the way that they want. This is especially true in the near term It

Ethan Mollick critiques a discussion about permanent underclass as being 'incredibly toxic,' likely addressing harmful rhetoric or assumptions about socioeconomic stratification in society. The post a

I think that academia has not absorbed the fact that AI agents are now good enough to independently reconstruct complex papers without access to code or the papers themselves; just the methods & data.

If you believe that AI is going to have a big impact on work and life, the only real tool for mitigating bad impacts and channeling usage for good will be government policy And that policy will be com

Organizational design for agents is hard, benchmarking agents working in concert is hard. Together, this is the next critical frontier for making AI matter in economically valuable tasks, and we reall

The most prominent academic society in my field (the Academy of Management) prohibits AI use in reviews, when the evidence suggests it should be mandatory to run AI reviews (with human discretion, of

There is also too much focus on two issues in discussions of paper reviewing: hallucinations & privacy. Hallucinations are not gone, but the latest models rarely hallucinate sources (& it is relativel

This is a useful image for thinking about the curve we are on and what likely comes next in an intuitively understandable way. there will this brief era where we can watch our AIs bumble around on the

Your personal feelings about the competency of government does not change the fact that government is the only entity (and the only one that can claim to represent the will of the people) that can act

DeepSeek released a new open-weights model with strong benchmark performance, though Mollick notes that benchmark results may not fully capture the capabilities of open models compared to closed syste