AI-curated bookmarks: Compressing 4.1M recipes and the speed of consciousness
emollick · x · 2026-08-17
Ethan Mollick shared 22 highlights curated by AI from his bookmarks:
- Culinary Math Space: Researchers compressed 4.1 million recipes into a 2MB model spanning 7 languages. It maps 1,790 ingredients into 300 dimensions, suggesting culinary traditions can be represented as a navigable mathematical space.
- Real-time Evolution: Scientists observed a single-celled alga evolve into a multicellular organism in about a year after introducing a predator, demonstrating how environmental pressure drives major evolutionary transitions.
- Speed of Consciousness: A paper suggests the human brain processes conscious thought at roughly ten bits per second, despite having billions of neurons.
Mollick also noted that he tried using Grokbot for the task, but it lacked API access to bookmarks.
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