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@emollick "One of the larger barriers to more people using agentic coding tools from the big AI companies to build their own small apps is that you have to go through GitHub to use them a website that is nearly incomprehensible to most non-coders"
X Link @emollick 2025-09-17T00:23Z 293.5K followers, 39.3K engagements

"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"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-23T23:20Z 293.5K followers, 846.8K engagements

"The circle is complete"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T01:04Z 293.5K followers, 21.4K engagements

"A real gap between what people using chatbots can do and what even non-coders can do with todays CLI-like tools that have access to their computers the web & the ability to execute long-term plans Big opportunity for the AI lab that gets powerful & safe personal agents right"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-30T01:38Z 293.5K followers, 17.8K engagements

"Claude's unwillingness to continue conversations after the context window is full is very frustrating. I am okay losing early context if I am working interactively on a project & making progress I am not okay with suddenly being cut off and being forced to start a new chat"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-13T05:18Z 293.4K followers, 229.2K engagements

"@NickADobos I don't want /compact. I am okay with a rolling context window like other models use"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-13T05:22Z 293.4K followers, 10.5K engagements

"I find it funny that a day after I post a paper it is reposted by accounts that frame the paper as "This is mind-blowing🤯" or "AI just destroyed X" or some other bombastic phrase. On one hand AI is really doing amazing stuff on the other pace your use of superlatives"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-14T17:47Z 293.5K followers, 23K engagements

"One problem with having a lot of followers is that I can't interact with some of the weirder bits of esoteric AI experimentation happening in strange corners of X for fear of ruining them by breaking their current joking/serious superposition through too much observation"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-20T03:48Z 293.4K followers, 21K engagements

"This is not perfect but it also doesn't seem like a model trained on video should be able to get so many details of the dynamics right: "honey pours down a marble statue of a toucan the nose cracks and falls off""
X Link @emollick 2025-10-20T04:25Z 293.5K followers, 22K engagements

"I have been waiting for a paper on AI agents and transaction costs and well agency problems Agentic work by its nature drastically changes how these operate with huge implications for how we organize markets and firms which are largely shaped by agency & transaction costs"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-20T15:44Z 293.4K followers, 28.9K engagements

"Lots of scattered AI announcements in the past couple days that are pretty valuable for business use cases from Microsoft OpenAI Google and Anthropic around memory business context and teamwork with AI - real issues. Now I just need time to try some of them out myself"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-24T04:37Z 293.4K followers, 19.3K engagements

"Next up: pay attention to expansions in artifacts/vibe coding for non-coders specialized AI tools for industries outside of coding (see Claude Finance) and systems that take software people use every day and radically transform how they work using AI (Excel agents for example)"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-27T22:13Z 293.4K followers, 6227 engagements

"@max_spero_ But that isn't the claim in the paper (weird retweets of my tweet notwithstanding). I used the term "Turing Test" a bit loosely but regular people were 60/40 or 50/50. Experts and folks familiar with AI music generators can almost certainly identify AI music at a higher rate"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T01:14Z 293.4K followers, 2800 engagements

"Thus queuing up one of my favorite times I have been quoted"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-23T15:17Z 293.5K followers, 188K engagements

"At least Gemini tried"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-24T04:46Z 293.5K followers, 44.9K engagements

"Online research surveys may be a dying methodology as techniques for verifying respondents as humans are failing: Automatic AI detection systems are currently completely unusable Individual attention checks will no longer be a sufficient tool to ensure good data quality"
X Link @emollick 2024-10-21T13:58Z 293.5K followers, 57.1K engagements

"My impressions of getting to work with a preview of the new Claude with computer use and putting it to work across multiple tasks. You can see the promise of agents but also where they still need work. I think it is a sign of the near future"
X Link @emollick 2024-10-22T18:20Z 293.5K followers, 32.3K engagements

"This feels pretty big to me. There is an assignment I give my MBA students where I give them a financial model for a business & ask them to identify missing or incorrect assumptions. The new Claude analysis module does a really good job spotting the issues & revising the model"
X Link @emollick 2024-10-25T16:44Z 293.5K followers, 46.5K engagements

"I took the surviving syllabus of W. H. Auden's 1941 "Hardest Class in the Humanities" (6000 pages of reading memorization of poems etc.) & turned it into an annotated site with all the readings. (Would have taken hours instead it was X prompts) Here:"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-18T23:23Z 293.5K followers, 54.8K engagements

"I wrote an updated guide on which AIs to use right now & some tips on how to use them (and how to avoid falling into some common traps) A lot has changed since I last wrote a guide like this in the spring and AI has gotten much more useful as a result"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-19T18:48Z 293.5K followers, 59K engagements

"AI video models may not be complete world models but they are oddly capable of fairly sophisticated (if flawed) "simulations" of novel situations. Veo 3.1: "three toy ships one made of iron the other of wood and one out of loosely packed sugar fall into a pool of water""
X Link @emollick 2025-10-20T04:19Z 293.5K followers, 39.6K engagements

"I am continually surprised about how few applications take advantage of the fact that AI systems can work with video. For example I can ask Gemini questions about what happens in a video (and not mentioned in a transcript) and get coherent answers including identifying emotion"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-21T18:01Z 293.5K followers, 17.6K engagements

"Grok X and a base model"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-26T03:06Z 293.5K followers, 14.6K engagements

"Some new theoretical economics papers looking at the implications of AGI. These two papers argue that a true AGI-level AI (equivalent to a human genius) if achieved would eventually displace most human labor and reduce the economic value of remaining human work to near-zero"
X Link @emollick 2025-09-20T19:22Z 293.5K followers, 392.7K engagements

"On one hand: don't anthropomorphize AI. On the other: LLMs exhibit signs of gambling addiction. The more autonomy they were given the more risks the LLMs took. They exhibit gambler's fallacy loss-chasing illusion of control. A cautionary note for using LLMs for investing"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-10T05:09Z 293.5K followers, 206.3K engagements

"This paper shows that you can predict actual purchase intent (90% accuracy) by asking an LLM to impersonate a customer with a demographic profile giving it a product & having it give its impressions which another AI rates. No fine-tuning or training & beats classic ML methods"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-10T14:31Z 293.5K followers, 905.4K engagements

"I don't think people have updated enough on the capability gain in LLMs which (despite being bad at math a year ago) now dominate hard STEM contests: The International Math Olympiad the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics International Informatics Olympiad"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-12T19:43Z 293.5K followers, 106.8K engagements

"On AI & water looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation to 50M for cooling alone So not nothing but also a lot less than golf"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-13T19:31Z 293.5K followers, 64.6K engagements

"Very curious if anyone is ever happy to see this pop up on their iPhone"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-24T02:45Z 293.5K followers, 45.4K engagements

"It takes much less time to create a song in Suno v5 than to listen to a song. Given the results that people can't tell the difference (and may prefer AI music that isn't tested in the paper) it suggests a big change coming to music consumption (and soon video)"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-24T04:30Z 293.5K followers, 31.9K engagements

"Is there a way to turn off the new X feature that opens every link within X Makes reading academic papers (and almost everything else) terrible (cant rotate have to re-login to sites when you scroll up half the window obscured etc) Too high a cost for not penalizing links"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-26T00:41Z 293.5K followers, 41.7K engagements

"I don't think teachers and trainers have updated their view of prompting enough. Bigger models are better at figuring out intent making prompt formulas less important. Reasoners eliminate the value of chain-of-thought prompting etc. Context & communicating goals are now key"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-27T19:17Z 293.5K followers, 52.9K engagements

"Since there are so many AI announcements my advice is to focus on those expanding what folks can do with AI (& especially tools that democratize who can use AI) rather than every single UX improvement Skills connectors & agents with file access/CLIs are especially interesting"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-27T22:10Z 293.5K followers, 25.2K engagements

"Also interesting to watch ambitious new applications that are AI-native. What Google is doing with NotebookLM for example is basically creating an entirely new interface for working with information that is a pretty strong break with older ways of handling large amounts of info"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-27T22:16Z 293.5K followers, 16K engagements

"Really wish xAI was more open about what they are doing Two months have passed since they released the only real testing information we have a partial model card for Grok X and no updates. They are pushing boundaries in a lot of areas & it seems important to learn from that"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T04:08Z 293.5K followers, 26.6K engagements

"From this new post by OpenAI: XXXX% of users (something like 900k people given public numbers) show signs of suicidal intent in their ChatGPT chats each week But there seems to be progress in making ChatGPT respond appropriately to mental health issues"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T04:55Z 293.5K followers, 19.5K engagements

"I wonder if we will start to see pressure on other model-makers to also address mental health risks directly. It seems like a position that policy makers might take in the future. Reposted because I did the math wrong in my head (should have asked an LLM first)"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T04:56Z 293.5K followers, 12K engagements

"👀New data on the corporate ROI from generative AI from a large-scale tracking survey by my colleagues at Wharton. They found that XX% already have a positive return on investment from AI less than X% negative return. Also XX% of businesses leaders now use AI daily themselves"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T17:02Z 293.5K followers, 288.3K engagements

"This is a pretty big deal achieving positive RoI is happening faster than I would have expected"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T17:04Z 293.5K followers, 17.4K engagements

"I have mentioned it but every aspect of the X iOS apps built-in web browser feels toxic You cant turn it off it covers the screen the controls are dark design (the little X doesnt close the overlay it closes the reader share button shares the post not article etc). Yuck"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T02:34Z 293.5K followers, 22.4K engagements

"Between this and the little X that gets added to every screenshot automatically the interface is being growth hacked into true unpleasantness"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T02:41Z 293.5K followers, 12.4K engagements

"Really interesting paper suggesting that distinct prompts (henceforth the possibility space of prompts shall be known as the Pringle of Prompting) map to unique hidden states inside the model letting you reverse from them (though not final LLM outputs) back to original prompts"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T11:24Z 293.5K followers, 33.1K engagements

"Among many enabling innovations for chatbots is the common cultural understanding & data of instant messaging I sometimes think about the 19th century LLM it would be epistolary: My dearest Claude I write you with an unusual request to tell me the best Pokemon. Regards AW"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T11:57Z 293.5K followers, 24.3K engagements

"For all its flaws Wikipedia is the crowning achievement of the human web An AI-assisted fork of Wikipedia could be interesting but only if it embraced transparency had access to scholarly work & if the AI was used to help humans in making information better not override them"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T15:03Z 293.5K followers, 46.3K engagements

"A weird gap in the Google AI line-up is between the Gemini research tools and NotebookLM. Gemini lets you do Deep Research but only a subset of other NotebookLM features while NotebookLM won't let you trigger a deep research report or do other types of AI interactions"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T19:04Z 293.5K followers, 21.1K engagements

"It is still strange that the AI can either execute a giant multipage prompt or explain a giant multipage prompt or analyze a giant multipage prompt depending on whether you start the prompt with "Why does this work" or "Make better" or whatever. The bulk of the tokens is prompt"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T19:46Z 293.5K followers, 16.3K engagements

"Seriously going from "execute this command" to "improve this command" to "simulate this command" to "mock this command" shouldn't be seamless when the command is XX% of the context window and the meta-instructions are tiny. I don't think we marvel enough at how weird that is"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T19:49Z 293.5K followers, 12.7K engagements

"Heck you can even throw your meta-commentary into the middle of a prompt in a parenthetical"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T19:53Z 293.5K followers, 10.2K engagements

"Not just statements. When the Fed chair frowns during a press conference the S&P XXX drops XXXX basis points for the next X minutes"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-30T02:50Z 293.5K followers, 36.7K engagements

"In discussions of AI and jobs we put too much emphasis on the technology and not enough on the corporate leaders who are actually making decisions about what they want to do with AI It is a time where CEO vision matters a lot and you can see a contrast in Amazon and Walmart"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-30T12:51Z 293.5K followers, 21.8K engagements

"The lessons such as they are: 1) Dont trust anything you see online 2) Hard to imagine that AI video will not have a major impact on short form video platforms 3) Its pretty fun to be able to summon whatever idea you have out of latent space"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-30T13:33Z 293.5K followers, 17.7K engagements

"Interesting new AI benchmark combining elements of game environment testing with world model testing that finds large gaps between human and AI ability (& some behavioral differences as well) We need more grounded unsaturated & hard benchmarks like this"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-30T15:11Z 293.5K followers, 14.9K engagements

"Microsoft Copilot has added some interesting features but I still struggle with the key problem: I cannot figure out any way to trigger GPT-5 Thinking Extended/Claude XXX Sonnet level responses No matter what I do no deep thinking no agentic actions no document outputs etc"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-30T18:22Z 293.5K followers, 34.3K engagements

"Ugh. The travel influencers learned about the penguin pillar"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-30T22:17Z 293.5K followers, 10.4K engagements

"On the good: Early promise in AI tutors integrated into education suggests crash efforts there might help many around the world especially in disadvantaged areas On the bad: Deepfakes need to be regulated & large scale-effort into making AIs support not harm mental health"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-31T04:24Z 293.5K followers, 3340 engagements

"New randomized controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. X weeks of after-school AI tutoring = X years of typical learning gains outperforming XX% of other educational interventions. And it helped all students especially girls who were initially behind"
X Link @emollick 2025-01-15T20:55Z 293.5K followers, 4.3M engagements

"It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that with 57M miles of data Waymos autonomous vehicles experience XX% less serious injuries & XX% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. XXX million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year"
X Link @emollick 2025-08-23T13:41Z 293.5K followers, 1.2M engagements

"We are starting to see some nuanced discussions of what it means to work with advanced AI In this case GPT-5 Pro was able to do novel math but only when guided by a math professor (though the paper also noted the speed of advance since GPT-4). The reflection is worth reading"
X Link @emollick 2025-09-06T21:54Z 293.5K followers, 530.4K engagements

"Claude's new ability to work with Excel files is the best I have seen so far I have given it existing spreadsheets to work with and asked it to create new ones. Good use of formatting formulas etc. It created all of this including XXX formulas from one prompt (& its solid)"
X Link @emollick 2025-09-10T02:50Z 293.5K followers, 289.1K engagements

"My test of any new AI video model is whether it make an otter using wifi on an airplane Here is Sora X doing a nature documentary. 80s music video. a thriller. 50s low budget SciFi film. a safety video. film noir. anime. 90s video game cutscene. French arthouse"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-01T02:58Z 293.5K followers, 192.1K engagements

"In general Gemini XXX Pro is a very capable model but it lags behind GPT-5 Thinking Extended/Heavy* and Claude Sonnet XXX in agentic ability & tool use in the chat UX. A key gap for any Gemini XXX to fill. * GPT-5 was supposed to solve the naming confusion but ()/"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-07T01:51Z 293.5K followers, 48.3K engagements

"Lets assume vibe coding gets good enough soon for non-coders to produce workable tools to solve their problems though not enterprise-level stuff What skills should we teach people in class to take advantage of these capabilities Right now intro courses aren't geared for this"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-18T19:16Z 293.5K followers, 77.8K engagements

"AI resources I work on that might be useful: My NY Times bestseller Co-Intelligence (now in XX languages): The Generative AI Lab at Wharton (free prompts & research): OneUsefulThing my free newsletter:"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-20T00:30Z 293.5K followers, 37K engagements

"Some interesting evidence that creating SVGs (like @simonws bicycling pelican) actually activate the same semantic concepts as asking the LLM to describe a pelican"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-25T04:08Z 293.5K followers, 31K engagements

"Claude GPT-5 Gemini and Kimi: "write me a horror story done entirely in the dedications to six books (you can give me the title and author of each book as well)" ChatGPT and Claude did well in different way. Kimi did the usual (sounds good but meaning falls apart)"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-26T02:55Z 293.5K followers, 30.1K engagements

"Lots of startups are trying to do these things but they are harder to do if you don't own the underlying models and RL pipelines and can't push LLM development in the right direction. That is why model maker announcements can be better indicators of where things are heading"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-27T22:18Z 293.5K followers, 12.1K engagements

"I am not sure I get how a startup in this space wins given the substantial investment into training on banking and financial use cases by Anthropic and OpenAI (plus some Microsoft) Owning the model & training pipeline seems like a very big advantage hard to compete with it"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T14:11Z 293.5K followers, 31.5K engagements

"There are ways to address this problem with prompting and tooling (& more recent models do better in these tests) but current LLMs are pretty weak at dealing with time sequences where multiple documents have different time stamps and need to be understood in coherent sequence"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-28T22:11Z 293.5K followers, 27.5K engagements

"Worth noting that your own marginal AI use has negligible impact but that AI is an industry & uses resources at an industrial scale. It is relatively resource hungry in electricity but it seems very resource efficient in water compared to other industries"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-29T16:05Z 293.5K followers, 30.4K engagements

"Sora: Tiktok style high energy video explainer about the spinning columns of penguins in the sky. The pillar has always been there. We live in a time of strange wonders (not the penguin pillar. That has always been there)"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-30T02:12Z 293.5K followers, 42K engagements

"Sora is much closer to pulling off the prompt "someone playing a winning card in magic the gathering close up on the board state as the card is played" Interestingly it makes up a card name and shows that fake card (in appropriate colors). Lots of little weirdness but closer"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-26T04:00Z 293.5K followers, 46.5K engagements

"The challenge in learning using AI is very similar to the same learning issue from search. When we are given answers we think we learn but we dont. Learning is work. However things like the learning modes from the AI providers help as does using AI for tutoring not answers"
X Link @emollick 2025-10-31T13:40Z 293.5K followers, 17.3K engagements