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Mollick: Most people misunderstand how LLMs work

Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence. Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1 Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick

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Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

Most people, including really accomplished people, don't have an accurate mental model of how LLMs operate (and why would they?) You see this in widespread beliefs that AI is just copying from known sources, or that it only produces average answers, or that it can't generate effectively novel ideas

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