Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

BATB score: 6.6/10 🤖

*reader discretion advised* BATB is just a little bit bored of the GenAI/LLM hype 🫥

Best as: a great book about GenAI / LLM fundamentals, historical key milestones, reference cases, controversies, and future analysis 🧐

Best to: conclude the major takeaways of this book into bullet points, memorize them, own them; you are now equipped and qualified to go on a GenAI panel / discussion / keynote talk; you will looks legit - ahh what a charismatic knowledgeable enthusiast 💯👍🏻

Best for: LLM/GenAI enthusiasts (and those who want to fake as one)

Best fun fact: when you ask ChatGPT for a random number from 1 to 100, ChatGPT’s favorite number is 42. Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the answer to the “ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.”

Best quotes: “makes you happy” beats “be accurate” when it comes to LLM output

“Whatever AI you are using right now is going to be the worst AI you will ever use.”

“When the AI is very good, humans have no reason to work hard and pay attention.”

“Just as calculators did not replace the need for learning math, AI will not replace the need for learning to write and think critically.”