Analyst · Wharton professor focused on AI use and work.

An interesting failure of Astra: I asked it to conduct original entrepreneurship research with whatever online datasets it could find, pre-registering its hypotheses. It churned out a lot of beautifully formatted, technically correct papers on boring topics. It wasn't slop, just no research taste.

Analyst · Wharton professor focused on AI use and work.

I occasionally get asked why I post so many visual things when new models come out. One reason is that nobody clicks any links so the visual stuff best communicates AI progress. But if you want detailed reads, here is the research from my AI lab at Penn: gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...

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