Ethan Mollick's One-Shot Astra Demo Builds Artist-Inspired Pixel Knight Game
emollick · x · 2026-09-15
Ethan Mollick prompted Astra to "create a series of sprites for artists (Klimt, Rothko, O'Keefe, etc) inspired pixel art knights with special attacks & build a game"—and it worked in one shot. He uses the demo to argue that AI does exercise forms of "judgment" and "creativity," even if different from ours.
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