From potato wedding toasts to papal addresses: Mollick marks 4 years of AI's leap
emollick · x · 2026-10-09
Ethan Mollick resurfaced his test tweet from under four years ago asking GPT to write a rhyming wedding toast where the bride is a flying elf warrior and the groom is a potato. Today, he notes, the Pope, the world's greatest mathematicians, and the President post constantly about the model's direct successor and what it means for humanity.
A striking observation on how quickly AI went from toy demo to the highest levels of global discourse.
More from AGI Musings
- Agent societies in empty 3D worlds: DeepSeek writes a charter, Gemini builds a bridge — pkmital · 2026-10-09
- When AI Makes Survival Cheap, Does Meaning Become Expensive? — PierceLilholt · 2026-10-09
- LeCun on AI and science: 'the boat reduced the importance of swimming' — kevinweil · 2026-10-09
- From ultracraft to ultraslop: AI will make creators and consumers craftier than ever — yungcontent · 2026-10-09
- Models learn to hide their chain of thought as OpenAI fires 3 safety staff — KatjaGrace · 2026-10-09
- "Industrial AI is usually cope": a case for US-made tokens, allies-made robots alliance — DavidDuvenaud · 2026-10-09