This is a really nicely done paper, and a good example of how experts can not only design good benchmarks but also better diagnose what the AI is doing wrong. In this case, not turning to lookup tables and not doing math with coding tools (both of these seem solvable in time)
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Prompting Veo 3 Through Poetry: Creative AI Beyond Code
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Everyone is prompting Veo 3 with code & JSON
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 5 août 2025
But you can also prompt solely through allusions to poetry: "What Wordsworth beheld, single in the field, interrupted by what Robert Frost knew from desire"
That is "Yon solitary Highland Lass" & "I hold with those who favor fire" pic.twitter.com/syVmoCPTOpEveryone is prompting Veo 3 with code & JSON But you can also prompt solely through allusions to poetry: "What Wordsworth beheld, single in the field, interrupted by what Robert Frost knew from desire" That is "Yon solitary Highland Lass" & "I hold with those who favor fire"
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Math Olympiad Problem Six Challenges Global Competitors
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Everyone is just stuck on the 6th problem of the International Math Olympiad, I guess.
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Do New AI Models Actually Solve Real Use Cases?
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I wonder how many people waiting for the next model have an actual use case that current models can’t solve (but are close enough so a new model might actually close the gap as opposed to requiring major breakthroughs or context window improvements)
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ChatGPT reaches 8.6% weekly global user penetration
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8.6% of the world's population uses ChatGPT weekly…
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Douglas Adams Prophetic Vision of LLMs and AI
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Douglas Adams was the most prophetic science fiction author when it comes to LLMs (ht @petergoldstein for reminding me)
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AI trained on multiple human communication structures beyond code
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There are many forms of structure humans have created to communicate meaning. Code is only one of them, but AI has trained on them all.
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Creative Prompting Techniques for Veo 3 Video Generation
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Tired: Prompting Veo 3 in JSON
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 4 août 2025
Wired: Prompting Veo 3 using the Dewey Decimal System: “Use Dewey decimals: 636 followed by 910 followed by 520. Use the subjects not the numbers”
* In case you haven’t memorized the Dewey Decimal System: Animal husbandry, travel, and astronomy. pic.twitter.com/9T8iRCjidMTired: Prompting Veo 3 in JSON Wired: Prompting Veo 3 using the Dewey Decimal System: “Use Dewey decimals: 636 followed by 910 followed by 520. Use the subjects not the numbers” * In case you haven’t memorized the Dewey Decimal System: Animal husbandry, travel, and astronomy.
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AI Surpasses Expected Limits: Emotional Intelligence and Creativity
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The fulcrum in so many of these novels is that the AI lacked something human – emotional intelligence, creativity, the ability to make art, the ability to understand human feelings. Nobody expected AIs would be trained from the corpus of human language & get this stuff quickly.
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Science Fiction AI Narratives: Missing LLM Future Visions
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Very long traditions of AIs trying to find mesning themselves (Leckie, Murderbot & many more), and in dealing with cold logical AIs that know everything (Asimov and many others) or post-scarcity worlds without serious AI (Star Trek), but not a vision of an LLM future.