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I have been playing these world models/games since the first diffusion DOOM, and multiplayer at 20 FPS is pretty neat. 'A dream of rocket league,' indeed. Introducing MIRA. A playable, multiplayer wor

MAI-1 has no independent benchmarks yet, but the ones they released suggest it is worse than Sonnet 4.6. Not sure it is going to be great as a Copilot at Excel and Outlook, especially as there are alr

Sovereign AI strategies of all types are built on the assumption of continuous releases of open weights models that keep pace with the frontier, giving cost/privacy/control gains at the expense of onl

Ethan Mollick argues that the specific format used for documenting requirements or processes (RFP, PRD, SOP, etc.) is less important than the quality of the content itself, and recommends using whiche

The overwrought language of Fable is an ongoing problem in software and design projects where the AI is otherwise excellent. It just creeps into little bits of text and toasts and menus, even if you t

This is a key reason I don’t expect the flow of frontier open weights models to continue indefinitely, or even for very much longer. https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-a

Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out. Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it allowed you to quickly buy access to many representative humans

World models are very interesting. https://x.com/connerruhl/status/2074245101379846400?s=20 Do world models work as a medium for storytelling? Over the weekend, I wanted to see how far I could push re

Ethan Mollick discusses how token costs for AI systems shouldn't be viewed purely as expenses, arguing that some token usage represents research and development spending to understand AI capabilities,

Anthropic and OpenAI will increasingly be able to serve weaker versions of frontier AI (Haiku, Instant) at very low cost And owning the full range of intelligence means they might provide 'organizatio

Big gains in PotatoMonetBench from Opus 4.5 to Fable: 'There are two controls. One is slider, in which one side is labelled Maximum Potato and the other is Formalware, there are four positions. The ot

Ethan Mollick discusses Google's potential to develop frontier AI models, suggesting that Google has the capability to compete in advanced AI development if it chooses to re-enter or prioritize this s

I can basically guarantee you are not being ambitious enough with the work you are assigning Fable Start asking for the maximum possible thing to figure out the far edges of what it can do. After that

I talk to a lot of companies that still have active efforts to build GPTs. (It remains weird that OpenAI abandoned GPTs after rolling them out. They were the precursor to Skills & could have been a br

I wonder if Fable might do better at tasks it 'likes' than those that it doesn't. If you ask it to do something 'Fable-y' it reacts with enthusiasm and promises to overdeliver. Otherwise, it just gets

Interesting stuff. And the visualization at the end is worth trying: https://www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/jlens New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everything happenin

Less than 2 years later, with Fable: 'simulate an encounter between a mind flayer and a drow warrior of equal CR. Set up initial stats then simulate each move, including initiative, rolling dice as ne

Ethan Mollick discusses the configuration scope differences between OpenAI and Claude AI systems, distinguishing between global settings that apply across all uses, local machine-specific settings, an

This post likely discusses how AI-generated responses tend to flatten or diminish the creative, humorous, and unconventional character of unusual or whimsical social media posts. Mollick appears to be

(This isn't some sort of boosterish AI slop post, I really think the right way to use Fable is to start by asking for everything and find the shape of the frontier from there, rather than starting wit

With inference scale and research scale to drive efficiency, and ever-improving frontier models as brains, this would be a way for the Labs to undercut even open weights models. Some companies will st

Ethan Mollick shared an interactive web application demonstrating a simulated game or scenario that users can view and interact with directly through a browser-based interface. The project, titled 'Th

As working with AI agents looks more like management, we may want to consider large-scale management training for the AI era. The US government actually did this once, & the WW2 Engineering, Science,

This post likely discusses how rapidly frontend design trends and 'vibes' evolve in technology, suggesting that design approaches from just six months prior can feel outdated or obsolete in the fast-m

When people discuss China vs. US competition over AI it would help if they specified the grounds of competition because there are divergent beliefs on what the actual game is, or if there is a game at

Hey, Fable: 'No like 'AAA' in what everyone online thinks AAA is, you know what I mean.' This was pretty funny, there are lootboxes, EULAs, achievements, useless graphical settings, elaborate boot scr

'History can be written of monsters, and in them,' reads China Miéville's 'Theses on Monsters.' https://conjunctions.com/articles/china-mieville-c59/ as a society we need to invent another classic mon

Ethan Mollick, a prominent AI researcher and entrepreneur, posted commentary on X about poor quality or unhelpful AI bot responses to a particular topic or question. The post likely discusses limitati

We are leaving the Old Code Age, the Paleocodic, the artisinal code era, where if you needed a novel program, you would commission a local codesmith or code guild to hand-craft a work of code for you,

Ethan Mollick reflects on how future generations will be amazed at the complexity and scale of work humans accomplished using only traditional keyboards and interfaces, before presumably more advanced

What if the model is the router? I think people underestimate the ability of frontier models now, but especially in the near future, to delegate work on their own as needed to dumber, cheaper models.

Fable: 'Last and First Men is out of copyright. I want you to make a movie that features a reading of it with appropriate mixes of animation and images using access to the APIs you have (elevenlabs, h

Happy 4th of July everyone. I came here as a kid at 9 years old, not knowing a single word of english, lived on food stamps in section 8 housing. My parents cleaned houses while my sister and I collec

I find projects like this show that yes, Ais obviously have judgement and taste. Maybe not your or my preferences, and maybe not good enough for all uses, but you can’t make all the choices required f

I kept asking Claude Fable to make the game 'more AAA' over and over again. The results are... interesting. In Claude's view, this meant upgrading graphics, boss fights, mechanics adding custom sounds

I never touched any tool or anything, all designs & prompts were the AI's choices. I pushed back a couple times: 'Are there ways to make the whole thing better - it is lots of static images and such?

This is true… but maybe less important than the fact that people don’t try ambitious things with these systems. Many models are excellent as a Google replacement, for homework “help,” etc. It is someo

While it is obviously true that not having verifiable domains makes training models in those spaces difficult... it is also true that models are also getting much better at non-verifiable domains. The

AI implementation advice on my X feed is divided between those who 'feel the exponential' and those whose (unconscious?) mental model of AI is that this is about as good as it is going to get, so it i

Been reading all sorts of posts about the best ways to develop workflows for Fable and it reminds me of how little we actually know about the best ways to organize work for long-running agents. Nobody

An AI system successfully created a functional demo game while reducing development costs, and is now advancing to develop an original first-person shooter concept with WebGL compatibility for browser

This post critiques Fable AI's text generation style, suggesting it produces overly verbose or exaggerated outputs that parody Claude's characteristic writing patterns taken to an extreme. The comment

Continual learning is probably the biggest barrier to explosive AI adoption (& may have big implications for recursive self-improvement as well) As long as you deal with amnesiac models that require h

This post likely discusses the practice of knuckle cracking, possibly exploring whether it causes joint damage, what causes the popping sound, or related hand health topics. Given Mollick's expertise

Fable in Claude Code is capable of really amazing things, including for non-coders, but the interface is not really designed for managing 5+ hour long autonomous tasks. Really hard to observe what is

Fable, one prompt: 'build an elaborate game that makes it feel like I'm a brilliant chess player without knowing anything at all about chess. It should make me feel like a grand master. Feel free to g