Ethan Mollick
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
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Their wordsMy point is that, while there is a lot of debate over what future models will do, the current capabilities of existing models are barely being used, and are often not even well understood.
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Their wordsSo change is coming no matter how the frontier is paced. It will not happen all at once and it will be uneven, but it is inevitable.
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Their wordsYou are not trying to compete with AI in producing outputs, that is a losing game. Instead, you want to use your human advantages as basis of working with AI to do things that neither of you could do alone.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsHuman agency, the willingness to push, experiment and act without waiting for instructions, seems increasingly important to getting value out of AI
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Their wordsWe found that AIs are actually quite creative and that they generate more commercially viable ideas than groups of humans, but those ideas are very similar to each other.
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Their wordsAIs don’t just repeat the same sentence patterns but also the same themes (memory is a favorite), names (Elara Voss, Marcus Chen), and underlying ideas.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe more expensive plans are mostly buying you more hours of AI labor, not smarter AI.
↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org
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Their wordsCopilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.
↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsThe risk of hallucination is why I always recommend using AI for topics you understand until you have a sense for their capabilities and issues.
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Our reading
Current AI models cannot produce insights beyond human understanding, however impressive they seem
Their wordsYou should remember that the best AIs can perform at the level of a very smart person on some tasks, but current models cannot provide miraculous insights beyond human understanding.