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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The data so far on AI-as-a-tutor shows just letting students use AI chatbots can undermine education because the AI gives the illusion of learning But AIs properly prompted to act like tutors, especially with instructor support, seem to be able to boost learning a lot through customized instruction

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I regret to announce that the meme Turing Test has been passed LLMs produce funnier memes than the average human, as judged by humans. Humans working with AI get no boost (a finding that is coming up often in AI-creativity work) The best human memers still beat AI, however. arxiv.org/abs/2501.11433

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Says it all.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

GPT4.5 & Claude, “Give me a secret history ala Borges. Tie together the steel at Scapa Flow, the return of Napoleon from exile, betamax versus VHS and the fact that Kafka wanted his manuscripts burned. There should be deep meanings & connections” Claude’s full story: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If it turns out LLMs are only capable of recombinatory innovation (finding novel connections among existing knowledge), that would still be very useful. Most innovation is recombination and one of the big issues in science is that fields are too vast for scientists to bridge them to find connections

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Laurence Seton 🇨🇦 💙 @laurenceseton.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Excellent (nerdy) article on the prospect of AI replacing nuclear weapons as the foundation for deterrence against Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD).

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Andrew Case @attrc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

On March 29th, I will be speaking at @bsidessd.bsky.social on Volatility 3, including all its new features and plugins. Be sure to attend to catch a sneak peak at the new framework before the major release later this Spring! www.bsidessd.org #DFIR #infosec

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is why they want to destroy us. Our superpower is explaining complicated things in a way that everyone can understand. They are going to try to destroy us whether we do it or not. I’m not going down without a fight.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I was hesitant at first to talk about “politics” more broadly in my courses. I’ve always talked about it as it applies bc it’s hard to ignore when you teach about climate change and space. But I am so glad I put my big kid pants on for these students because it really matters. (3/3)

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My whole class stayed 15 extra minutes to ask questions and to *thank* me for taking the time to talk to them about this stuff. Their future livelihoods depend on what is happening too. They deserve to understand it and to have background to read the news and talk to their friends and family (2/)

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Professors please pull up a chair. I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government. At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

About 50 years ago, I was reading political thrillers, including several by Fletcher Knebel. His 1966 novel, NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, centers on a U.S. president who has gone insane. Signs of insanity include: desire for (a) an alliance with the USSR, and (b) annexation of Canada.

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Jessica Lyons @jessicalyons.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Security engineer Anmol Singh Yadav built AWS-Key-Hunter after he found more than 100 exposed AWS access keys, some with high privileges, in public repositories, "just waiting to be exploited."

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Automated tool scans public repos for exposed AWS secrets

You can find out if your GitHub codebase is leaking keys ... but so can miscreants

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Three models now pass my Lem Test on the first try: Claude 3.5 Sonnet, o1-pro and now Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (though o1-pro has the strongest verse and Flash Thinking the weakest) Everything else fails, including DeepSeek r1, o3-mini-high, and Gemini 2.0 Pro

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Not an easy chart to read, but worth spending a minute on. It tells you a few key things: 1) Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking sets a new high in price-performance, better than DeepSeek r1 (on ELO) and cheaper 2) The cost of GPT-4 capability dropped 1,000 fold in 18 months 3) Pace of improvement is swift

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Easy prediction for 2025 is that the gains in AI model capability will continue to grow much faster than (a) the vast majority of people’s understanding of what AI can do & (b) organizations’ ability to absorb the pace of change. Social change is much slower than technological change.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I really wish there was more interest in benchmarking AI models on real tasks. The fact that there are not 30 different benchmarks from different organizations in medicine, in law, in advice quality, etc. is a big shame. People are using systems for these things anyway & we don’t know implications.

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Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

PromptWizard from Microsoft Research is now open source. It is designed to automate and simplify AI prompt optimization, combining iterative LLM feedback with efficient exploration and refinement techniques to create highly effective prompts in minutes. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

The image is a flowchart titled “Sequential Optimization of Instruction and Examples.” It consists of two rows, each depicting a sequence of steps involving documents, speech bubbles, and gears. The background is a blue to green gradient.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I think firms worrying about AI hallucination should consider some questions: 1) How vital is 100% accuracy on a task? 2) How accurate is AI? 3) How accurate is the human who would do it? 4) How do you know 2 & 3? 5) How do you deal with the fact that humans are not 100%? Not all tasks are the same.

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LLVM Weekly @llvmweekly.org · 06/12/2024

Video recordings and slides from the recent LLVM Developers' Meeting are now online. Time to stop whatever you're doing and check them out! llvm.org/devmtg/2024-...

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The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

One thing I worry about with AI is that it is very good at persuasion, as studies have shown, even when it is persuading you of something wrong. For example, I asked Claude to create 10 pseudo-profound sounding leadership lessons that sounded good but were toxic. It did "well"😬

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Volatility @volatilityfoundation.org · 21/11/2024

The 12th annual @volatilityfoundation.org #PluginContest is OPEN for submissions! Contribute to the open source forensics community, gain visibility for your work + win prizes! Details here: volatilityfoundation.org/the-12th-ann... Submission Deadline: 31 December 2024 #dfir #memoryforensics

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The 12th Annual Volatility Plugin Contest is Open!

The Volatility Plugin Contest is officially open for submissions! This is your opportunity to directly contribute to the open source forensics community and put groundbreaking capabilities into the…

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