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.”
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Beyond Enshittification: Accurate Naming for Platform Decay
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I thought the original “enshittificafion” idea was useful for illuminating a problem with platforms. I don’t think it is worth applying to everything as it obscures diverse reasons for decay: organizational inertia, AI spam, reduced capacity. Accurate naming helps solve problems
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Wealth Group Performance Gap in Investment Returns Analysis
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"The top wealth group underperforms the bottom group by 11.3 bps per month or 1.36% per year." Here's a link to the paper: https://
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Why Meritocracy Matters More Than Wealth in Fund Management
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Inheritance vs. meritocracy, or why you shouldn't let rich kids invest your Mutual fund managers from poor families outperform those from wealth. This is because it is easier to be hired and promoted as a mutual fund manager if you come from wealth, even if you are bad at it.
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AI Content Flood Challenges Academic Peer Review System
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Peer review isn’t built to handle the flood of AI content, especially as not all of it will be obvious, and not all will be malicious (lots of scholars pay editors to help make their writing better, now they will use chat). The system, already straining, won’t be able to adjust.