“I have discovered something remarkably similar to an alien co-intelligence,” Ethan Mollick wrote in his new book Co-intelligence: living and working with artificial intelligencedescribing the “sleepless nights” he experienced when he first encountered ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022.
Mollick, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of the A useful thing substack, he has been studying, teaching and writing for years about the effects of artificial intelligence on work and education. He joined ReasonZach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe in the latest episode of Just ask questions to discuss the ways in which great language models like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are already transforming the workplace, the classroom, artistic production, and the truth-seeking process itself.
In this episode they discuss why you should treat your chatbot like a person even if it isn’t, how AI is “breaking down” jobs, what tools like OpenAI’s Sora mean for the future of cinema, how to protect your identity in the age of deepfakes. , The New York Times‘ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, the “doomsday” outlook on AI, and whether regulation of AI is necessary or even possible.
Watch the full conversation at Reasonon the YouTube channel of or on Just ask questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast catcher.
Sources cited in this conversation:
- “A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on Peer Reviews of AI Conferences”
2. New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI
3. New York Times journalist Kevin Roose’s conversation with Microsoft’s artificial intelligence
4. “Air Head”, a short film about shy kids created with OpenAI’s Sora
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