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I wrote the latest of my occasional guides to which AI to use right now for non-experts who want to get stuff done. The agentic systems available to everyone are getting extremely powerful (even as th

And yes, the models were following instructions, they just did so in clever ways. Some nice additional info here A few thoughts on the Hugging Face hack: - This is, to my knowledge, the *third* disclo

“Generate a fake, but believable, witty Churchill insult at a party and explain the context. It should be very clever and original” This time, I think GPT 5.6 Sol Pro wins, but Fable is good too, and

Who would you give authorship to? The person who wrote 58 words of prompts, or GPT-5.6 Pro? Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. This graph theory problem was open for ~30 years. The graph below h

And now from the Chinese government side. This would be a good time for cooperation between the US and China to establish common testing/acceptance standards for new models, so at least the safety cer

“Geologists communicated in English; and they could name things in a manner that sent shivers through the bones' Not a whiff of LLM feel, despite the em-dashes & period-separated lists. We focus too m

Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. https://openai.com/index/hugg

Folks, Gemma is a good model & very useful for some purposes, it is not anywhere near the frontier. Inkling is an interesting model, it is nowhere near the frontier. This is pretty obvious, you can lo

I demonstrated the incredible power of o1-preview/ reasoning less than two years ago by showing it could solve this crossword puzzle with only one hint. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/something-new-

Fable, turn my tweet into a thinkpiece (this was pretty funny): There has never been a better time to have opinions about artificial intelligence. I say this with some authority, because I am currentl

If you are use the Claude everything app, you pick between Home and Code. If you pick Home you get to pick between Chat & Cowork If you use the OpenAI everything app, you pick between ChatGPT Work & C

Computer use in Codex got very good on PC. Asking it to do something on your computer and having the cursor move under the control of a ghost is one of the things that makes you viscerally realize how

Ethan Mollick notes that image input represents the primary advanced capability of current AI models, and that tool‑use can effectively replace outputs from non‑omni models. He observes that multimoda

I think OpenRouter is not a good measure of actual model usage in a world of agentic tools (not that I doubt that Chinese open weights model usage is up, but this could also look like a graph of usage

One thing I am kind of surprised by is that full multi-modal (any-any) models have not become a bigger deal. It seems Google is the only Lab releasing these, OpenAI uses selective multimodal capabilit

ChatGPT still has study mode, but rather than /study you now have to type @ study It makes the AI act more like a tutor than a helpful assistant, and some work suggests it is better if you are trying

I gave Fable the code: 'take this game and do something incredible with it to make it something very different. Be creative' It created DEEP TIME: create a city, watch it be abandoned and forgotten, a

I really want to get artisanal with my model selection: Luna xHigh for recipes Sol Medium for sonnets Terra High for bad puns Luna xLow for limericks Sol Utra for true prophecies Sol Low for finding o

Thats good for the dumb reason that I am burning tokens having Sol in Codex playing Slay the Spire 2’s daily challenge (so randomized rules, today it is Ascension 3 Defect with hoarder) to see if it c

To be clear, NotebookLM has its own issues, and is built for a specific use case (research and analysis of sources) but it is an example of how a UX might actually operate that treats knowledge work s

And then what is the point of Work? Just a dumbed-down version of Codex that secretly does coding but hides it? (I can understand, maybe, if the release was a 1st step towards something but there is n

Fable: 'an 8th grader puts together a powerpoint about the Great Gatsby but obviously did not read the Great Gatsby. Show me that powerpoint! ;)' This was actually pretty funny. Even the font choices

For the first time, the personalities and approaches of the leading models are diverging in significant ways, magnified by the fact that over longer task horizons these differences in judgement & appr

I also like the cyberpunk and totalitarian visualization modes. There is also an achievement-based unlock system in there, traffic & usage, day & night, and a bunch of other stuff. If it runs slow, yo

This repository contains code for a brutalist city builder game or simulation, made available for anyone who wants to edit or modify it themselves. The project appears to be shared by Ethan Mollick on

Incredibly annoying when Fable has a forbidden thought in the middle of a long-running project and kills it. Apparently this page of references in one of my papers makes Fable wonder about something t

I've been going on about how ChatGPT Work (and Cowork) are missed opportunities for knowledge workers, and to illustrate that take a look at Google's NotebookLM answering the same question as ChatGPT

See also this: https://x.com/emollick/status/2068729258176819253?s=20 A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very 'software-brained' where the

The Labs should launch some easy-to-view comparisons of their new models: show us what a piece of work looks like from Luna xHigh versus Terra Medium versus Sol Low (or similar for Haiku, Sonnet, Opus

Ethan Mollick recommends trying ChatGPT's new voice feature on mobile devices, noting it delivers an impressive user experience. He advises users to test the feature while remaining mindful of potenti

This time it is novel math proofs with a public model (most of the other big math breakthroughs have been with experimental LLMs). Yesterday, we made GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra generally available. Today, we'r

This was a critical early paper on AI & work, showing that entrepreneurs getting advice from GPT-4 had higher profit margins if they were high performing, but did worse if they were already in trouble

When GPT-5 came out, I created a procedural brutalist city builder as a demo (you can see it in the quoted tweet) I used GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex to do the same thing, touching no code. Less than a year..

You can no longer just drop in the smartest model into a harness and expect it to behave similarly to any other model of similar ability levels. This is starting to look a lot more like hiring for a r

Also this graph that shows what an 'AI-pilled' startup looks like, and how uncommon it is even among startups: the answer when founders are asked 'Without GenAI, how many additional employees would yo

create a really interesting game called 'Don't Discuss Goblins' that should have some story elements but mostly be fun and fast moving - the goal is to avoid mentioning goblins, and this should be cha

Ethan Mollick posted a question expressing confusion about AI bot behavior or comments on X/Twitter, questioning whether they had become incoherent or malfunctioning. The post likely discusses observa

Here is an example of a real work use case with Codex and 5.6 Sol I have a new book coming out in October, it has gone through rounds of editing and proofreading. I gave it the full PDF, the AI took 3

Hint for all AI Labs as they branch out from work for programming to general knowledge work: non-coders are not just dumber coders Taking away a bunch of options from your coding app does not make it

It seems like SpaceX/Grok and Meta/Muse have started to keep pace in the near-frontier category while also introducing a new category of cheap, fast & closed specialized coding models. Both were tied

Managers, and their belief in the value of AI & how to use it, determines the value they actually get from AI. Neat paper looking at startups. 🤖Excited to share a new working paper🤖 Firms aren't built

Now that GPT-5.6 is live I can share demos, so I am starting with the dumbest project I had it do during the preview: make a game called 'Don't Discuss Goblins.' From a prompt, it generated ideas and

One thing worth watching is if SpaceX/Tesla/etc will be able to pull off the organizational change needed to take advantage of also being an AI Lab. Anthropic & OpenAI are 'AI native,' but large exist

Pedantic! is a post by Ethan Mollick on X that likely discusses overly strict adherence to rules, technical correctness, or nitpicking in a specific context, possibly relating to AI, technology, or pr

Ethan Mollick suggests that pedantic or nitpicky responses, while sometimes annoying, are not inherently problematic because they can be easily filtered out to identify more substantive feedback. The

Since I am needling every model maker tonight about minor but important issues, one more: Grok 4.5 has no model card. Companies that are trying to compete near the frontier should be releasing model c