I just found out that Co-Intelligence, my book on AI, just made the New York Times bestseller list! It is very exciting, and thank you to everyone who has read it. You can get it here: https://
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/c
o-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/?ref=PRH410E2C567AF
… There's a companion site with free resources: https://
moreusefulthings.com
@emollick
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Co-Intelligence Book Becomes New York Times Bestseller
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Model Scale Determines Agent Brain Performance and Capability
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This is a key point on AI agents "Brains" matter for agents. As long as the scaling law holds, you get much better results out of using bigger frontier models as the main brains of your agent, though it might be able to delegate to lesser AIs Labs with the best model get the
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Social Media CEOs Balancing Shareholder Value and Algorithmic Ethics
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Honestly I wish the CEOs of social media companies were asked more about this trap. How do they navigate in a world where maximizing shareholder value pushes them (or their algorithms) towards this sort of outcome. Is there a better way, and are they considering it?
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Social Media Algorithms Drive Polarization Through Engagement Mechanics
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A lot of excellent research boiled down into four laws. Together, they illustrate the trap of social media. Engagement drives use & revenue. Extremists attacking out-groups drives engagement. Inevitability, social media companies slide towards polarization & conflict as a result
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Vendy: GPT Persuasive Vending Machine for Problem Solving
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If you want to try to interact with a persuasive vending machine, here is Vendy, a little GPT I threw together. It knows that the solution to any problem is probably buying a refreshing lemonade, and is here to help. https://
chat.openai.com/g/g-LMszzSJYv-
vendy-the-friendly-vending-machine
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Benchmarking AI Reasoning: Defining Metrics and Testing Improvements
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Benchmarking is especially hard when we don't even agree as to what the words involve mean. I believe that reasoning has been improved, but I am not sure what that actually translates to. The only way to figure out is to put in hours to test yourself?
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LLMs Lack Self-Knowledge Causing Critical Mistakes
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The fact that LLMs lack self-knowledge causes a lot of mistakes
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GPT-4 Improvements Lack Transparency and Release Notes
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As is usual with AI, a “majorly improved” GPT-4 model comes with no real changelogs or release notes. It’s going to better at many things and worse in some other things and also different in some other way you aren’t expecting. Or that might just be in your head. AI is weird.
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Microsoft Provides Free GPT-4 Level Model for Global Access
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Also kudos to Microsoft for providing the only free GPT-4 level model available worldwide. Many people could not afford access to a frontier model otherwise. I hope they keep up that commitment.
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AI’s Transformational Impact on First Generation College Students Globally
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I just spoke with 300+ first generation college students worldwide through @aspire_leaders about AI and I think those of us in the US & Europe are overlooking how transformational these tools can be in other parts of the world. So many were already experimenting with local uses.