Ethan Mollick is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in entrepreneurship and innovation. He is known for his research on startups, management, and the impact of AI on work and education.
In this book, Mollick shows how AI is impacting our lives at the moment. He explains the risks and the shortcomings of, what he calls; the worst AI you'll ever use (since the better AI is coming!). But he also zooms in on the possibilities that Generative AI will give us as humans.
In the end of the book Mollick gives a foresight of what AI may become in the near future.
Mollick explains how generative AI works, that the results are dependant on the data it has been trained with. Most Gen AI tools are trained with public data that can be found on the internet. This means that this data also contains mistakes and human prejudices.
AI will change the way we will work and study. AI will probably take over boring, routine tasks (that are dangerous for our mental health), just like other technical revolutions in the past.
It's not said that AI will take your job, Mollick states that AI will probably take over some tasks that will give you more time for the interesting, more challenging tasks.
Mollick mentions that AI still needs to have a human in the loop. Be sure that you are the human in the loop to check and correct the output of the AI tools, because they do make mistakes and do make things up. Use it as a tool!
Throughout the book, Mollick gives a lot of examples of how you can improve your promps. One of them is to tell AI who he is. This gives him some context. After this you can continue the conversation with him. You can also ask AI to check the outcome of itself by telling him he is a different person. You can create a text pretending to be George Orwell and add improvements to the text as William Shakespeare (or something like that).
You can also use AI as your coach. Tell him a certain goal you want to achieve and then ask him what information he needs to make a plan for you to reach that goal. AI will answer with a couple of questions you have to anwer. And when you have done this, it will generate a plan for you based on that.
And these are just two of the examples.
I found it a very interesting book that has learned me some new things about AI. Almost every existing job has tasks that can and will be taken over by AI, so it's a good idea to work together with AI to form a CO-intelligence with it.
Thanks for reading my book review.
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