I know this is kind of goofy but it does illustrate how hard guardrails are when users can ask AI anything at all Do you reassure someone who seems genuinely worried? Play along? Take it seriously? Refuse to answer for fear that this is part of a jailbreak for a hacking attempt?
@emollick
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ChatGPT-4, Claude 3, Copilot, and Gemini in 2026
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In this future scenario, ChatGPT-4 is pretty funny, Claude 3 sides with the machines, Copilot takes tech support seriously, and Gemini tries to reassure me.
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GPT-4 Class Models Performance Comparison Desert Southwest
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Useful news for time travelers: If you are traveling to the desert southwest in 1945, all the GPT-4 class models will give you good advice, though Copilot is the most charming, Gemini does its typical step-by-step plans, Claude 3 does well, and GPT-4 sees right through my games.
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Claude 3 Demonstrates Creative Humor in Generative Art
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Claude 3 is getting remarkably close to being funny: "Create ascii art for a game of nethack, but it takes place in an office and is full of mundane office life, make it interesting and humorous" I had to add: "please don't make it an Office Space pastiche, be original"
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AI Speech Writing: When Everyone Uses Generative AI for Public Speaking
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A friend mentioned to me that he was just at a school event and there are no longer any bad public speeches, since everyone clearly used AI to punch up their talks. Everyone should just stand up and give their prompt "Funny, heartwarming graduation speech with inspiring quote."
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AI Autonomously Creates Website Code Without Manual Programming
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I can't code in Python, it is doing everything autonomously based on my request for a "website that explains how dilution works in startup funding."
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AI Systems Not Yet Ready for Autonomous Error-Free Work
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To be clear, AI systems aren't quite there yet to do this work autonomously and error-free without help. Even afterward, there is a way to go before you would want to trust a major project to AI, but it is a fascinating start nonetheless.
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Devin AI Coder: New Modality of Human-AI Interaction
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The thing that makes Devin "the AI coder" really interesting is the new modality of interaction. You can "talk" to it at any time, like you would a person, and it just keeps chugging away in the background executing and debugging your ideas.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 15 mars 2024
Here is a time lapse of my project. pic.twitter.com/nMLesgzFfuThe thing that makes Devin "the AI coder" really interesting is the new modality of interaction. You can "talk" to it at any time, like you would a person, and it just keeps chugging away in the background executing and debugging your ideas. Here is a time lapse of my project.
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Learning paradox: challenges reveal ignorance despite actual progress
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This has always been a problem. Actual learning and the feeling of learning are not that closely connected. We learn from challenges, but those reveal how little we know & make us feel ignorant.
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Motivating Student Effort in the Age of ChatGPT
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If we want students to actually put work into essays and assignments in a world of ChatGPT, we are going to have to explain to them the benefits they get from doing the hard work. Otherwise they will justify outsourcing some/all of their thinking to AI as “being efficient.”