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Ethan Mollick ✓ @emollick · Feb 8, 2024
Gemini is such a boring name for an AI (better than GPT, but not much). Bard was a much more interesting jumping off point. They could have continued with character classes (Paladin, Sorcerer), or gone with realistic bardic inspiration (Skald, Poet).

Why can't anyone name AI?

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I suggest deep cuts, AI names from 1960s and 60s science fiction: The Prime Radiant, The Dead Lady of Clown Town, Klapaucius, The Third Fleet-Army Force Brain, The Great Coordinator, Trurl, The Demon of the Second Kind.

All are still available, Google and Microsoft....

7:55 PM · Feb 8, 2024 · 40.8K Views
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Two-tweet thread by Ethan Mollick from Feb 2024 on AI naming, suggesting names from classic science fiction.

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Ethan Mollick ✓ @emollick · 6h
To the list we can add PHASEONE[big]

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Ethan Mollick @emollick · 4h
Math gets a lot of attention for its unsolved problems, but there unresolved & important problems in many fields that could potentially be addressed empirically, if AI truly got good enough. Problems that, if solved, would bring large value to society.

For example, I study entrepreneurship and some unresolved great questions include:

What causes entrepreneurial success rather than merely being correlated with it?

Is exceptional growth meaningfully predictable, or is it largely an emergent, path-dependent outcome that can only be detected after it begins?

Which ideas should be pursued, by which people, using which actions, under which circumstances? When should they stop?

What skills can we teach that meaningfully improve entrepreneurial success?

What is the smallest feasible intervention that can move a place from a low-entrepreneurship equilibrium to a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem?

What processes cause some firms to become less adaptable as they grow while others stay flexible?

Which elements of other firms must a startup imitate and which may it violate? [cut off]
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X post by Ethan Mollick (@emollick) arguing AI progress could empirically address important unsolved problems outside math, illustrated with a list of open questions from his own field of entrepreneurship research (what causes entrepreneurial success, predictability of growth, interventions for entrepreneurial ecosystems, firm adaptability, etc). Thread continues past the visible screen.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick · 7h
You will live to see wonders and respond by shrugging and saying "yup, that's another wonder"

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸... @Noahpi... · Aug 1
All the cliches about tech journalism are true. It has become almost entirely about the human relationships, the intrigues, the politics, the deals, etc. The sense of wonder at the future possibilities of the tech itself is gone.
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X post by Ethan Mollick (@emollick) quoting Noah Smith's complaint that tech journalism has become all about human drama/politics/deals rather than the wonder of the technology itself; Mollick's comment predicts people will become jaded to genuine wonders over time.

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