Which are the other two? The nuance here is that these entrepreneurs were already in trouble, and mentorship may have been an accelerator to inevitable failure. Business shutdowns are not always viewed as a bad thing in the entrepreneurship literature.
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AI Mentorship Boosts Small Business Profits by 15 Percent
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I would love to see more work on AI as advisor to humans, rather than AI just doing work. This controlled study in Kenya found top small business entrepreneurs got a stunning 15% boost in profits when given an AI mentor, but low performers struggled with mentorship & did worse.
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GPT-4V Medical Imaging Still Lags Behind Human Doctors
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AIs are very proficient at text-based medical problems, often outperforming doctors, but the multimodal GPT-4V system is still much worse than humans at medical images.
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Naming Phenomena in Academia: Entropy and Conceptual Clarity
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Highly recommend that academics spend the time to come up with good names for phenomena they study. And this is great: “In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."”
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GPT-4 Outperforms Majority of Physicians in Psychiatry
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“GPT-4 ranked higher than the majority of physicians in psychiatry… it performed similarly to the median physician in general surgery & internal medicine… GPT-4 performance was lower in pediatrics & OB/GYN but remained higher than a considerable fraction” of active doctors.
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Video to Game: Interactive 3D Environments from Single Videos
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They have a playable demo: https://t.co/qaLe9ctRln
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 16 avril 2024
As you will see, we are not that close to “turn any video into a video game level” but it is pretty remarkable to be able to interact with a 3D environment from a single video, even in a limited way. https://t.co/NJwDn8XRP2They have a playable demo: https://
video2game.github.io As you will see, we are not that close to “turn any video into a video game level” but it is pretty remarkable to be able to interact with a 3D environment from a single video, even in a limited way. -
Twitter’s Professional Relevance Decline in Tech Community
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I don’t know about overall use, but when you go to conferences you can see the sad decline of Twitter’s relevance to the professional world. People used to talk about who they learned from & their interactions on this platform, now it is all private chat groups & (yikes) LinkedIn
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GPT-4 Already Making Serious Impact in Law, Medicine, Business
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There is a ton of debate about how good AI might get, but not enough recognition that the research on AI in law, medicine, business etc. finds that GPT-4 class AI is good enough to make a serious difference in work & education In some ways, future capabilities are a distraction
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Why LLMs Are More Persuasive Than Humans Study
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We know that LLMs are more persuasive than most humans, this study offers some tentative reasons why that may be true: LLMs produce arguments that are MORE morallly charged than humans do, and which require more cognitive work from humans to understand https://
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Data importance to AI companies questioned and reconsidered
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Also your data is not as important to AI companies as you think.