Apparently new information technologies have been beset by egregious errors and dubious IP practices for at least half a millennium.
@emollick
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GPT-5, Gemini 2.0, and the race for LLM advancement
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I see a lot of comments on how much is riding on GPT-5 to show LLMs haven’t plateaued (I have said similar). But it isn’t like OpenAI is the only company expecting future big model improvement. We know Gemini 2.0 is in the cards, and we know Anthropic & X are training new models.
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Experimenting with thinking in other languages for AI research
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Thinking in other languages is a fascinating idea. I want to experiment with that. Very clever.
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ChatGPT struggles with complex visual scene generation
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ChatGPT struggles a bit:
"Visual Elements: Towering trees, a dimly lit path splitting into two, fading dusk light, shadows moving slightly with the wind." Its code drew this (to be fair, I think it "wanted" the tress to be vertical cones) -
Claude 3 Fantasy Game with p5js 3D Animation Scenes
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"Claude 3, we are going to play a fantasy game. you are the dungeon master. you will give me a scenario and illustrate each scene with a p5js 3D animation I can just paste right into an editor…."
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 23 avril 2024
Claude: "You soon find yourself in a circular grove, surrounded by ancient trees" pic.twitter.com/MMkUNGu6vy"Claude 3, we are going to play a fantasy game. you are the dungeon master. you will give me a scenario and illustrate each scene with a p5js 3D animation I can just paste right into an editor…." Claude: "You soon find yourself in a circular grove, surrounded by ancient trees"
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Goal-Play AI Simulations for Interactive Learning
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Here is a goal-play prompt you can try. In a goal play, the AI sets up a scenario in which the student knows something the character in the simulation does not and guides the character using what they know, GPT: https://
chat.openai.com/g/g-Rg4AbuKui-
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Gemini Advance: https://
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Claude generates buggy 3D spaceship simulator game code
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I asked Claude to make me a 3D spaceship simulator game and it produced this code, which I pasted into a p5.js editor online as instructed.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 22 avril 2024
It is obviously full of strange bugs that I could work with Claude to solve. But controls work and I appreciate the sheer weirdness. pic.twitter.com/6wRFsmU0jSI asked Claude to make me a 3D spaceship simulator game and it produced this code, which I pasted into a p5.js editor online as instructed. It is obviously full of strange bugs that I could work with Claude to solve. But controls work and I appreciate the sheer weirdness.
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AI-Powered Research Experiences Transform Educator Innovation
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Our new paper on how instructors can use AI to create research-based experiences that would have been impossible to do before the advent of generative AI. We also teach how to build them. Blog on democratizing innovation: https://
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Paper: https://
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Managing Large Audiences: Social Media Strategy Tips
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Every so often I realize that I am sending stuff to over 200,000 followers and I panic slightly. The key to tweeting to a large audience is not to think about the audience too much. Don't look down. (And also delete stuff that you realize was a mistake to post)
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LLMs Struggle With Complex Individual Identities in Social Research
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There are many good uses for AIs in social science research, but also many clear cases when they are inappropriate as well. This paper shows how LLMs struggle with portraying complex individual identities (like race or gender), suggesting important limitations for research use.