Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing newsletter

Well worth a regular read. Here’s a recent example.

15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to

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DeepSeek - a Chinese LLM

Barely a week passes without another break through in AI.

This week it’s the release of DeepSeek R1 - an open-source ChatGPT competitor from China.

It is causing a wide range of reactions from Silicon Valley from

  • “Bring on the competition”
  • “They’re cheating”, “Fake Results”

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Hello world - again!

Well it’s been a while since my first post 33.75 years ago to rec.music.beatles back when all we had were dial-up modems and text views.

The first browser (Mosaic) was still a couple of years away (end of 1993 for Macs). So we did our best to communicate across the planet with Usenet in all it’s green text on black glory.

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