I also noticed that the AI consistently dated everything with the actual Third Age dates, including in Excel. The Ring was destroyed in March in 3019 according to the books.
@emollick
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Time Travel Knowledge: What Would Most Advance Today?
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Hey Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini: "I am time traveling back to the 75 BC Rome for one day. I can't bring anything back. What is the one thing I could learn that would most advance today's knowledge and what is one thing I could do there that would make me richest today" Pretty good
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Blocklists impact on audience reach and platform diversity
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On one hand, it makes things more pleasant individually. On the other, the blocklists are wide-ranging & often lump all sorts of people together & generally destroy the ability to reach diverse audiences (or see them at all). It isn’t really an X competitor it is something else
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AI Capability Expansion: Variable Performance Across Tasks
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You can find examples of both on X every day. The existence of graduate-level performance does not mean they are equally good at everything & the existence of idiotic failures does not mean they are not capable of leaps. So far, the trend had been fast expansion of abilities.
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Claude Demonstrates Complex Context Understanding from Vague Prompts
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It should not escape our attention that: This is pretty funny, not as funny as really funny people, but funny. This is a good application of consulting frameworks, not as good as great consultants, but quite good And Claude got the complex context from a single vague prompt.
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New document creation capability enabled for users
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You can turn on the ability to make documents
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Claude Generates McKinsey PowerPoint for Hamlet’s Ghost
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Hey Claude: "Please create the PowerPoint shared by the high powered management consultants hired by Hamlet after seeing his fathers ghost" That was the only prompt. Loved that Claude made this from the McKinsey Elsinore office (with the right colors!), also that SWOT analysis!
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AI’s Societal Impact: Policy and Regulation Urgency
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As AI is a General Purpose Technology, it will have wide-spread implications for whole swaths of society. Trying to figure out what those effects are (and mitigating the bad ones through policy, regulation & design) is going to become increasingly urgent task in the coming years
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Claude Opus Outperforms Sonnet for Complex Phone Assistant Tasks
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So it looks like Claude got there first: an actually smart phone assistant that can take complex requests that involve both common sense and complicated constraints. It is still beta feeling though & I found I needed to use the bigger Opus model as Sonnet was not smart enough.
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AI Opacity Shifts Collaboration to Supplication Dynamic
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As AI systems keep getting better at very hard problems while getting more opaque, the way that we work with AI is shifting from being collaborators who shape the process to being supplicants who receive the output. I discussed what that means.