Ethan Mollick
18 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2024 by Ethan Mollick · said 5 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Jul 31, 2024 positive
Jul 31, 2024 bullish
Mollick: AI value accrues to skilled integrators, not compute providers
“The real value of the steam engine came from having skilled artisans in your factory who said, I've got this thing that can make power go back and forth. How do I create the gearing to connect that to my, you know, my spinning Jenny, my ammunition manufacturin…”
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Mollick: His Wharton classes are now 100% AI-based with custom simulators
“My classes are a hundred percent AI based at this point. Students have AI mentors and tutors they talk to. They have AI based assignments. When they learn how to do hiring, I built, we built a simulator that actually makes them have to fake hire somebody and t…”
Jul 31, 2024 bullish
Mollick: Major AI companies will inevitably enter custom chipmaking
“Yeah, I mean, the, your requirement in any supply chain pipeline is to eat the value. If you're, you know, like, that's the whole idea of, you know, how those things work. So, like, if the, if you're spending a lot of money on chips, you go into chip making. J…”
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Mollick: Only 5-10% of professionals have used advanced AI models
“Five to 10% of people in any room, whether, by the way, Silicon Valley, actual people, right, who aren't at a lab, whether that's at a large bank, whether that's at a conference of innovation professionals, maybe five to 10% have used those models, and maybe t…”
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Jul 31, 2024 positive
Mollick: Empirical research shows founders must move to Silicon Valley
“That's an empirical result from a bunch of studies. Companies that, you know, there's been a study of Israeli companies in the Valley, New York companies. Like, it's just, the issue is, is that that's where the connections are, and it turns out Zoom only gets …”
Jul 31, 2024 negative
Mollick: AI automating middle management will cause a workplace meaning crisis
“What's going to happen that I'm very worried about is when you realize as a middle manager that AI does your work and nobody cares like, what does that mean for the nature of work? Like, how does that matter if people don't care? Like, if AI subs in and does s…”
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Jul 31, 2024 neutral
Mollick: 1930s switchboard automation permanently displaced older operators
“When the telephone switchboards went from sort of manual to digital in the starting, or not digital at that point, but mechanical in the 19, starting in the 19 thirties, At that point, I think one out of every 16 women had spent time as a telephone operator. I…”