Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick

@emollick

4 Tweets Apr 08, 2023
I find it interesting that the four major conversational LLMs available (Claude, Bard, Bing, ChatGPT) all are based around a chatbot/assistant model.
In using these AI tools for serious work, the chatbot features often get in the way. Is there a reason they all went that way?
I get the impression that the companies rushing to release AIs didn't realize that they were actually releasing a transformative productivity tool, not delivering a fun consumer product.
Instead, we have tools that disrupt marketing, education, etc. that you have to banter with.
To be clear, the back-and-forth nature of working with AIs is great, as is the fact that they maintain a memory of the conversation. But they don't all need to have personalities and use first person for errors "I don't have a good answer for that"
Like Bing is the most powerful work tool for analysis I have encountered, but you have to negotiate with it. oneusefulthing.substack.com

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