Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick

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Professor @Wharton studying AI, innovation & startups. Democratizing education using tech Book: https://t.co/CSmipbJ2jV Substack: https://t.co/UIBhxu4bgq

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We can now say pretty definitively that AI progress is well ahead of expectations from a few years ago. In 2022, the Forecasting Research Institute had super forecasters & experts to predict AI progress. They gave a 2.3% & 8.6% probability of an AI Math Olympiad gold by 2025…

Veo 3: "a big broadway musical about garlic bread, with elaborate costumes and a sondheim-like vibe"

The current state of research on AI and education: Growing evidence that, when used as a tutor with instructor guidance, AI seems to have quite significant positive effects. When used alone to get help with homework, it can act as shortcut that hurts learning Still early days.

I thought my "otter on a plane using Wifi" benchmark was already done, but Veo 3 adds higher quality... and sound Here is "an otter on a plane using wifi on their phone, the flight attendant asks them "do you want a drink ?" and the otter nods" (One of the first set of 4 videos)

Very big impact: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week after school progam in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" at very low costs

I say this a lot, but the narrative that AI use is going to collapse due to data limits or costs or environmental factors or regulation or a "hype bubble" popping or whatever is not a useful position for critics. Development may slow (it hasn't yet), but AI use isn't going away.

"o3, show me a page from the instruction manual for a machine that turns everything into crabs" Intrigued by the warning it created: "make the warning page of what happens if you insert a crab into the Universal Crabbifier" "show me a security camera still..." (all zero shot)

When I talk to companies, the General Counsel's office is often the choke point that determines AI success. Many firms still ban AI use for outdated unclear reasons, yet lots of companies in heavily regulated industries are adopting AI universally, so this is a solveable issue.

Everyone has this👇 technology that we were all was blown away by a year ago, for free. I even screenshotted the problem from the video to use in this demo to test it out.. Yet a weakness is the GPT-4o vision system, which still has trouble with details like where my line was.

Did you hear? @OpenAI's newest model can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. How does GPT-4o do with math tutoring?🤔 @salkhanacademy and his son test it on a Khan Academy math problem. You can get AI-powered math tutoring right now with Khanmigo:

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