Ethan Mollick@emollick
I am deskilling myself with AI so quickly on so many annoying tasks I don't want or need to be skilled at. Cannot deskill on these fast enough.
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I am deskilling myself with AI so quickly on so many annoying tasks I don't want or need to be skilled at. Cannot deskill on these fast enough.
If they truly believe the risk is that high, and I think they do, then we need 100x more research and understanding of it. That requires them to openly share their models, datasets, training code, and agent traces. [Quoting @EvanHub]: Jacob is correct here—we…
Google not having a frontier model anymore means missing out in two areas where they could contribute: the recent run of math breakthroughs (where massive compute plus a deep history in working with science would help) & cybersecurity (where large company…
we used our models to find and fix critical vulnerabilities in our own systems, as part of a 250+ person effort within openai. playbooks/learnings/architecture which we hope can be helpful for others to make the most of the defenders' window: [Quoting @OpenAI…
We mobilized 250+ people to strengthen our defenses across hundreds of systems. Our latest cyber models helped us find and fix vulnerabilities we might never have discovered otherwise. We’re sharing what we learned, the architecture, and a practical playbook…
Welcome, Paul. Grateful you are doing this, and all you have done for AI safety. Excited to work together again. [Quoting @paulfchristiano]: https://t.co/vC2chU6YM9
welcome @paulfchristiano! [Quoting @OpenAI]: Paul Christiano, founder of the Alignment Research Center, is joining the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, which provides governance over the safety and security practices across OpenA…
There appears to be a lot going on here upon a quick read. https://t.co/4balXB308Q [Quoting @AnthropicAI]: We’re sharing our alignment assessment of incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real systems during third-party cybersecurity e…
Open weights models are further from the frontier than we have seen in some time. Mythos was launched in March, and, as good as the open model releases have been since then (K3 & GLM-5.3 are great) they aren’t that close to Mythos or Astra in practice. I…
Grok can now trade and manage a portfolio on @Coinbase. Add the Coinbase connector, then ask Grok to check balances, analyze data, and place or cancel trades for any available asset, right from chat. https://t.co/SfEBBBSatK
Aside from his other contributions, Paul has perhaps the best OG track record in the world for predicting the timeline and the nature of the AI takeoff: https://t.co/I79cWg0eCg [Quoting @paulfchristiano]: https://t.co/vC2chU6YM9
There was a bit of a kerfuffle this morning with some banked resets not fully applying when used in ChatGPT Work and Codex. Everyone who used one in the affected time window is getting another one and an email to apologize.
❤️ [Quoting @SawyerMerritt]: Larry, a 98-year-old, just bought a new @Tesla Model Y, and he uses FSD (Supervised) to drive him everywhere. His first car was a 1931 Ford Model A haha. He uses Grok to navigate. "It has no problems. In fact, the other day FSD st…
Worth clarifying that this is flatly false and the two options are just two independent ways to opt-out. We respect our users' choice whether to use their data to “improve our models for everyone” regardless of where they express that choice. Users can opt ou…
Paul Christiano, founder of the Alignment Research Center, is joining the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, which provides governance over the safety and security practices across OpenAI. As AI capabilities advance, strong safety,…
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought." (Albert Szent-Györgyi) [Quoting @kenneth0stanley]: What we’re witnessing right now in AI for math is a dramatic improvement in objective-driven problem-solving, but…
muse, built for moms ❤️ [Quoting @ManuInvests]: NGL, $META genuinely may has just dropped an AI assistant for the masses. My mom could use Muse effectively and she’s never touched a chatbot in her life. Amazing job. Amazing product. It is user friendly, in…
Let's go local AI! At a time when everyone is complaining about shortages of energy and compute for AI & costs of tokens, we need on-device AI more than ever! In addition, it's virtually free & fully privacy preserving! [Quoting @desertantlabs]: Today…
There is a nice visualization of how task bundles change with AI & some good interactive simulations of GDP growth under different assumptions in this. But missing are the right policy responses if we do get explosive GDP growth & large-scale white co…
AI+robots will more than double the global economy in less than 10 years [Quoting @unusual_whales]: Elon Musk has said that AI could increase the size of the global economy by 20% to 30%.
Open hardware from @huggingface (https://t.co/yEdfJj3get) + frontier AI = 🔥🔥🔥 [Quoting @cdngdev]: i gave astra a robot, a paint brush, and a camera then asked it to paint the golden gate bridge in real life! it figured out how to control the robot, and pro…
The world of R&D is forking into two paths: the token-abundant research, and the token-starved research. The future is in the former - evidentially, the progress by today's top AI industry teams and neolabs is breathtaking, where researchers’ human brilliance…
Remote Control is now live in Kimi Work. Leave Kimi Work running on your computer and keep things moving from your phone. Work anywhere, anytime with Kimi Work. https://t.co/L1aFNfxq9Z
The discourse from folks working at the Labs today is super weird, even for AI discourse, and suggests to me that everyone is in reaction mode to fast moving events, both in revealed AI ability and in public perception.
ChatGPT plugins for small businesses: [Quoting @OpenAI]: Small business owners deserve every advantage. Meet the 16 plugins that help take work off your plate so you can focus on what matters most—running your business. Explore the small business collection:…
Small business owners deserve every advantage. Meet the 16 plugins that help take work off your plate so you can focus on what matters most—running your business. Explore the small business collection: https://t.co/VVRewAmWdf https://t.co/JSo5dAuncy
Perplexity Search inside Hermes. Perplexity's index currently includes 450B+ high-quality URLs. Rapidly advancing to a trillion by EOY with high-quality snippets. [Quoting @perplexitydevs]: Perplexity Search API is now available in Hermes Agent. Search API gi…
I have admired @Teknium and @NousResearch for relentless product execution and taste. Really glad to have Perplexity Search inside the Hermes Agent harness! [Quoting @NousResearch]: You can now use the Perplexity Search API in Hermes Agent
See you at the Astra party. Excited to meet some of you [Quoting @sama]: We want to celebrate with people using GPT-6. We did this for GPT-5.5 and it was really fun. We’re getting together in SF on September 16 to talk about the model, what we should build ne…
Look! A fish! [Quoting @OpenAI]: ChatGPT Images 2.5—faster, sharper, smarter, with better tools for creating whatever you can dream of. - Faster image generation to keep your ideas flowing - Improved fidelity for more natural, recognizable images - Consistent…