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'a gallery of shoes, where each shoe is under a painting & is styled matched to that painting: Starry Night, The Bathers, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Bayeux Tapestry, Klint's Grupp Svanen nr

Among all the model release furor, important to note that people don’t need to switch providers or declare a winner every time a new model is released. Especially as Opus 4.7 is a good model too! (Esp

And I cut the prompt a short due to character limits, I specifically asked for Klint's Grupp IX/SUW, Svanen, nr 17. Which is exactly what I got. Here are the paintings as represented by super cute ani

Here’s my view on GPT-5.5, which I have been testing for a couple of weeks. It conducted not-bad social science research on its own, developed a novel RPG & more. There is still jaggedness but GPT-5.5

This post by Ethan Mollick discusses uncertainty about identifying a specific 'Bathers' artwork, noting the ambiguity of whether it references one of Cézanne's 200+ paintings on the subject, a Fauvist

Ethan Mollick posted on X about having early access to GPT-5.5, commenting positively on its capabilities and noting that the Pro version is particularly strong. He indicated that a full detailed writ

Interesting, OpenAI just released a free healthcare version of ChatGPT-5.4 for clinicians that beat specialty-matched physicians with unlimited time + web access on a benchmark of real & hard clinical

One change over the last six months is that in every big company I talk, at least a few senior people absolutely get AI — they experiment (a lot of OpenClaw, surprisingly) & they have an intuitive sen

The post appears to be a critical observation about poor-quality responses, possibly referring to multiple instances of an AI character or persona named 'Elara Vance' appearing in generated content, w

All of the AI models have preferred names. If you asked Claude 4.5 for a software developer, you are going to get Marcus Chen. Wizards are mostly named Aldric. Space pilots are Kira from Claude, Mara

Also agree with this. AI's ability to do consistent pacing is a problem. Here, the poem anchors enough of the comic that it is okay, but static, though with a few good moments. But fiction writing and

An advantage of the humanities — of reading & seeing a wide range of great works from many perspectives & cultures — is that you develop your sense of taste. In a world where anyone can produce a floo

As everyone knows, the internet has millions of images of art galleries filled with paintings of otters sitting on airplanes, which is the only reason these stochastic parrot AIs can produce outputs l

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, lawsuits, government filings, essays) will break. 🚨New pre

GPT-ImageGen-2 did this in one shot, with just the prompt 'turn all of Tennyson's Ulysses into a comic, across as many pages as needed. make it great, include the full text' 10 pages, though it did us

Image models tend to get much more stuck on a particular direction than text models, requiring clearing the context window fairly often. PerfectSquashBench is my new measure of how image models anchor

This post discusses an AI-generated image that is remarkably realistic with only minor flaws, specifically noting that the most noticeable error is a doubled hour hand on a clock face. Ethan Mollick u

This post discusses concerns about AI model degradation through the inclusion of low-quality or irrelevant training data, using butternut squash image generation as a humorous example of how excessive

This wasn't the case with previous image generators, but the LLM you select has a huge effect on GPT-imagegen-2 output. GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro will produce much better images, especially for

Ethan Mollick discusses the concept of 'setting time on fire'—wasting time on unproductive activities—and explores the temptation to do so, drawing on arguments he originally published two years prior

Ethan Mollick defends his personal stylistic choice to use em-dashes in his writing, humorously asserting ownership of this distinctly human writing preference. The post appears to be a response to su

Ethan Mollick comments on an impressive AI model achievement, noting that the performance gap between models appears consistent with historical trends based on his assessment.

This post likely discusses the challenges or difficulties of writing a sestina, the complex poetic form requiring six stanzas with a specific pattern of end-word repetition. Ethan Mollick, known for d

I find that open weights models over-perform on benchmarks compared to actual real-world usage, and Kimi feels like no exception. For example, a small amount of use will show that Kimi is not as good

I have been using GPT ImageGen-2 for the past weeks I didn't think that better image-generators would be a big deal but it turns out that there is a quality threshold I didn't expect, where you can no

Kimi 2.6 Thinking seems very good for an open weights model, but many rough edges compared to closed SoTA. The Lem Test resulted in a 74 page thinking trace... and an okay-ish answer. It did an okay T

LLMs are still not consistent judges of qualitative work, and small changes to how that work is presented affect outcomes. Better harnessing and methods (multiple judging runs with randomized orders,

My most popular AI post was a bunch of made-up 'graphs' four years ago. Now, the new GPT-2 image generator does it for real (though not perfect) Here's the famous AI task horizons graph with a touch o

Same prompts as before, but now in GPT image-generator 2, page excerpts from: 'Eldritch Horrors as Pets: A Guide' 'How Womblenauts Work' 'Photographs of the People of New York Who Look Like Birds' 'Ca

Though the images are very good, ChatGPT Image 2.0 does have the typical imagegen problem, which is that editing can be 'stubborn', and attempts to get the AI to change details work well for the first

A useful ward against slop story/science posts on X is noting which is in the character limit. All of the models struggle to do 280 character summaries on their first pass, and most of the people crea

AI reviewers then ranked the submissions, and gave the same ordering every time, regardless of model doing the ranking: Codex GPT-5.4 > GPT-5.3-Codex > Opus 4.6 > humans. Paper: http://claude-code-eco

Classic study gave 146 economist teams the same dataset & got wildly different answers New paper reruns it with agentic AI. Claude Code & Codex land near the human median, but with far tighter dispers

Ethan Mollick shared context about OpenAI's o1-preview model launch, likely discussing the capabilities and implications of this new reasoning-focused AI system that represents a shift toward models d

The second most important release of the LLM era (after GPT-3.5), featuring what was likely the most important chart. Still seems surprising to me that OpenAI told everyone about the biggest advance i

This is also consistent with what OpenAI said at the time! https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2046064264189026587?s=20 @emollick We felt it was the right thing to do. People deserved to know what was co

An obvious way to release Mythos class models with uncertain autonomous ability is to make them only available on the website, like Gemini Deep Think or ChatGPT Pro. Minimal risk of being used for aut

And its not just economists: I am an economic sociologist, there are plenty of us, and management scholars and organizational psychologists, and many other scholars looking at topics related AI & work

And there are many really good AI components at Google: they have top-flight image, music, & video generation, and good UIs for each of them. Google AI studio is probably the best playground for AI ex

I am not convinced that we should be comfortable calling 'problem solving' or 'judgement' or whatever as skills that are impossible for AI to do well. Like any other skill, there are humans who are re

The continuing gap between the capabilities of Gemini Pro 3.1 (very good model) and the capabilities of the Gemini app/website is odd. The model can do what Claude/GPT can do, but there is a minimal h

This paper shows people are asking a lot of medical questions of AI already, but we have little evidence of how good or bad this is. Most of the published research uses old models & compares to doctor

We only have spotty information about this very important topic. It suggests AI can be good at diagnosis, but the real world doesn't always match the experiments. https://x.com/emollick/status/1980474

A major lesson to take away from Opus 4.7 is that, while there is a lot of arguments about implementation choices and personality, models keep improving measurably on economically important tasks with

Anyhow, I realize nobody cares and all the AI labs have started presenting their GDPval-AA score, but it is an incredibly gameable output with low face validity and we really need trustworthy measures

This XKCD comic likely explores themes related to artificial intelligence, technology, or machine learning, presented through the comic's characteristic minimalist style and witty commentary. Ethan Mo