The BCG study used eighteen realistic business tasks spanning analysis, persuasion and creative work.
“we developed eighteen realistic business tasks, and these ranged from analysis to, uh, persuasion to creative tasks.”
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Juan Martinez
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Ethan Mollick cites a survey finding that over 60% of people use AI secretly at work at least some of the time.
“I think the best survey we have is over 60% of people use AI secretly at least some of the time.”
Ethan Mollick says OpenAI's explicit goal for 2024 was to release fully working autonomous AI agents.
“that's the explicit goal of OpenAI this year is to release fully working autonomous agents.”
Ethan Mollick predicted that GPT-5-class models would appear in summer 2024 and significantly improve on GPT-4.
“I would suspect that this summer of 2024, we will see GPT five class models that will represent a significant improvement over GPT four.”
In a Super Mario Party experiment, participants were paired in teams of two and worked together to gather fruits and vegetables in a kitchen.
“They were paired in teams of two, and they had to work together to gather fruits and veggies from around the kitchen.”
In the Super Mario Party study, human pairs played six rounds, then played six more rounds with an AI teammate added.
“The researchers asked these teams to play together for six rounds, the two humans. Then they added an AI team member and asked the team to play another six rounds with the AI.”
In the Super Mario Party experiment, 84% of participants said they preferred playing with human teammates over the AI teammate.
“84% of the people in the experiment said they preferred to play with their human teammates over the AI teammate.”
A Harvard Business Review article published in February 2024 examined how working for an algorithm changes workplace dynamics.
“the second article was published on HBR dot org in February 2024, and the focus is on how working for an algorithm”
Researchers paid one thousand gig workers to write slogans for a van rental company's social media campaigns in a field experiment on algorithmic management.
“They paid one thousand gig workers from an online labor platform to create slogans for a van rental company's social media marketing campaigns.”
Workers guided and evaluated by an algorithm offered roughly 20% less advice to peers than workers managed by a human.
“they found that the workers managed by the algorithm offered roughly 20% less advice to their peers than the workers managed by the person.”