Ethan Mollick (@emollick)

We tested one of the most common prompting techniques: giving the AI a persona to make it more accurate We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it worse. ...

It looks like AI music is following the same path as AI text: 1) Appears to have passed the Turing Test, people are only 50/50 in identifying older Suno vs. human songs (but 60/40 when two songs are the same genre) 2) Same fast development, new models are getting better quickly. ...

For what it is worth, few industry leaders, less than a half-dozen companies & no policy-making bodies are taking actions that suggest that they expect AGI is really a few years away. This may be because they don’t believe it or they think it won’t matter much in the medium term...

This paper shows the same effect as other studies of "cheating" with AI - if you use AI to do the work (as opposed to using it as a tutor), you don't learn as much. But note: the results are specific to the essay task - not a generalized statement about LLMs making people dumb. <span class="quote-...

So it looks like ChatGPT with Code Interpreter can do basically any visualization technique you ask. And you can tell it to make charts "more beautiful" (I actually asked it to generate artificial data to create the charts to show what they could do, which the AI happily did😬) ...