Ethan Mollick on the Marvel of LLMs Met with 'Ugh, Another Bot'
emollick · x · 2026-08-03
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick tweeted about the modern desensitization to AI marvels. He broke down the staggering reality of interacting with an LLM: a machine taught from humanity's collective writings, powered by billions of microscopic switches, transmitted as light pulses across oceans, and rendered on a pocket supercomputer. Yet, despite this miraculous technological stack, the typical human reaction is merely a dismissive sigh of, "ugh, another bot."
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