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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

Here's DeepSeek v4 Pro. Added to the playable gallery as well. Media I had a range of models 'build me a procedurally generated 3D simulation showing the evolution of a harbor town from 3000 BCE to 30

I had a range of models 'build me a procedurally generated 3D simulation showing the evolution of a harbor town from 3000 BCE to 3000 AD' in one prompt. You can play the full gallery here: https://hg-

This post expresses hope that upgrading to DeepSeek v4 (an AI model) will improve the quality of bot-generated comments on a platform or service. The statement implies current bot comments are conside

Ethan Mollick documents his first attempts at using DeepSeek v4's expert mode to generate TiKZ code for creating unicorn graphics, sharing results from the DeepSeek website's v4 Pro interface. The pos

I cannot provide an accurate summary for this entry as the text appears incomplete and lacks sufficient context. The post fragment references o3 (likely an AI model), GPT-5.5, and discusses timeline/e

Ethan Mollick discusses the phenomenon of users entering deeply immersive, flow-like states while intensely interacting with advanced AI models, suggesting the need for better terminology to describe

'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

This article by Ethan Mollick likely discusses emerging capabilities and implications of GPT-5.5, OpenAI's next-generation language model, exploring how it represents advancement in AI technology and

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