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Jun 2023
53m 47s

Ethan Mollick — How AI Changes Everythin...

Jim O'Shaughnessy
About this episode

Ethan Mollick is an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. He also leads Wharton Interactive, an effort to democratize education using games, simulations, and AI. When Ethan started his Substack One Useful Thing in November last year, he was planning on writing about a different management paper every post. Then, in Ethan’s words, the arrival of ChatGPT turned him from “an AI-skeptic to an AI-believer.” Over the last few months, Ethan has been explaining the rapid developments in the AI industry, documenting how he has incorporated AI into his teaching, and providing practical guides to how we can use AI in our daily lives. Important Links:

Show Notes:

  • From AI skeptic to AI believer
  • AI is already disruptive
  • Unexpected AI use cases
  • AI is not a search engine
  • Prompt crafting is not the future
  • Is the centaur model the future?
  • How will AI impact education?
  • Will AI accelerate entrepreneurship?
  • The politics & geopolitics of AI
  • How to get unique results using AI
  • Using AI to explore liminal spaces
  • Speed-running the adoption curve
  • Can you teach curiosity?
  • The complex relationship between corporations and AI use
  • We have agency over our future
  • MORE!

Books Mentioned:

  • The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology; by Raymond Kurzweil
  • The Iliad; by Homer
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