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Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide Picking your general-purpose AI
4 days ago
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Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
2 weeks ago
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What just happened A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
a month ago
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15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
a month ago
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Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard
2 months ago
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The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
2 months ago
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When you give a Claude a mouse Some quick impressions of an actual agent
3 months ago
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Thinking Like an AI A little intuition can help
3 months ago
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AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
3 months ago
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Scaling: The State of Play in AI A brief intergenerational pause...
4 months ago
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Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
4 months ago
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Post-apocalyptic education What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
5 months ago
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Change blindness 21 months later
5 months ago
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On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
6 months ago
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Confronting Impossible Futures We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
6 months ago
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Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold Small improvements can lead to big changes
7 months ago
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Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D Ideas come from the edges, not the center
7 months ago
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What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴ Siri versus the machine god?
7 months ago
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Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
7 months ago
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Four Singularities for Research The rise of AI is creating both crisis and opportunity
8 months ago
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What OpenAI did A new model opens up new possibilities
8 months ago
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Superhuman? What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?
8 months ago
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Freeing the chatbot Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
9 months ago
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Innovation through prompting Democratizing educational technology... and more
9 months ago
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What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
9 months ago
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On the necessity of a sin Why treating AI like a person is the future
10 months ago
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Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play And then there were three...
10 months ago
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I, Cyborg: Using Co-Intelligence How I used AI in my book about AI
10 months ago
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Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs Also, we have a prompt library!
11 months ago
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Strategies for an Accelerating Future Four questions to ask your organization.
11 months ago
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Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
11 months ago
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What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) Five analytical tasks in under a minute
a year ago
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The Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation Taking AI timelines seriously
a year ago
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Signs and Portents Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
a year ago
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An AI Haunted World Intelligence, everywhere.
a year ago
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An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
a year ago
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Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI Technological change brings organizational change.
a year ago
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Not much is changing, a lot is changing OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
a year ago
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Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do Also, my book has a cover (also I have a book coming out)
a year ago
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Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
a year ago
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The Best Available Human Standard What are the imperatives of the upside?
a year ago
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What people ask me most. Also, some answers. A FAQ of sorts
a year ago
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The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
a year ago
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Everyone is above average Is AI a Leveler, King Maker, or Escalator?
a year ago
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Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....
a year ago
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Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
a year ago
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Now is the time for grimoires It isn't data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise
a year ago
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Automating creativity There is now strong evidence that AI can help make us more innovative.
a year ago
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In Praise of Boring AI Automation has always been about killing tedious work. AI can do the same.
a year ago
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On holding back the strange AI tide There is no way to stop the disruption. We need to channel it instead
a year ago
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How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
a year ago
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What AI can do with a toolbox... Getting started with Code Interpreter Democratizing data analysis with AI
a year ago
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The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
a year ago
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On giving AI eyes and ears AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
a year ago
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Detecting the Secret Cyborgs The AI Trap for Organizations
a year ago
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Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class Also prompts! And things to watch out for!
a year ago
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Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true...
a year ago
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What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
a year ago
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On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
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Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
a year ago
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AI is not good software. It is pretty good people. A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI
a year ago
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It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
a year ago
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A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
a year ago
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Democratizing the future of education We are all EdTech designers, now
a year ago
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One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
a year ago
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The future of education in a world of AI A positive vision for the transformation to come
a year ago
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Thinking companion, companion for thinking Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
a year ago
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How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide People often ask me how to use AI. Here's an overview with lots of links.
a year ago
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Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
a year ago
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Acceleration. 7 days of new AI technologies shows us that everything is happening very fast.
a year ago
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Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful Here are five strategies and prompts that work for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
a year ago
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How to... use AI to unstick yourself We often lose momentum because of something small. AI can help.
a year ago
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Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
a year ago
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Feats to astonish and amaze A compendium of things I didn't think AI should be able to do
a year ago
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Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
a year ago
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How to Get an AI to Lie to You in Three Simple Steps I keep getting fooled by AI, and it seems like others are, too.
a year ago
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Blinded by Analogies What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
a year ago
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The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI We had a brief glimpse of two different types of AI. Both are significant
a year ago
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My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
a year ago
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I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
a year ago
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a year ago
I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits of AI were wrong.
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A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
a year ago
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Magic for English Majors Programming in prose in an AI-haunted world
a year ago
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"Do not fear AI, puny humans... that is not meant as a threat." What we can learn from a completely AI written & illustrated lecture
a year ago
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The Machines of Mastery "Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
a year ago
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A prosthesis for imagination: Using AI to boost your creativity AI can already beat humans in many measures of creativity. Let's use that to our advantage.
over a year ago
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The practical guide to using AI to do stuff A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
over a year ago