Ethan Mollick: From Wedding Toasts to the Pope and President Discussing AI in Under 4 Years
eldonredwards · x · 2026-10-09
Ethan Mollick quotes his own tweet from nearly four years ago asking a model to write a rhyming wedding toast with an elf warrior bride and a potato groom, noting that the Pope, leading mathematicians, and the President now routinely post about the model's successor and what it means for humanity.
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