Ethan Mollick
Associate Professor, Wharton School. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ethan Mollick is an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Co-Director of the Generative AI Lab at Wharton, focusing his research on innovation, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence.
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5said about them ↓ Everything Ethan Mollick said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mollick: OpenAI's $3B revenue run rate is largely an accident
“I mean, they're incidentally making three billion dollar run rate this year, I think by like just accident, but there isn't like a, there isn't really a product there right now.”
Mollick: Open-source AI safety guardrails will be breached immediately
“And I do think that open models will immediately have their guardrails breached.”
Mollick: Lean startup methodology fails during breakthrough innovation eras
“I think the problems of the lean method are coming home to roost. What every VC wants to see is, you know, and especially in like app facing stuff is they want to see product market fit. There's a method we have, right? You come up with like a, you know, rough…”
Mollick: Silicon Valley founders build narrow wrappers despite predicting AGI
“It is very strange from one hand for all of these people in Silicon Valley to be like, yeah, you know, AGI is coming. And then the applications they're building are like these very narrow, like, hey, I slapped something on top of llama. And you know, it's like…”
Mollick: No current startup will survive in an AGI world
“The real problem right now is every startup in the world is betting against AGI. Which I find really funny because all the funders are like, yeah, AGI is coming in the next five years. If it is, why are you funding these startup companies? Like none of them ar…”
Mollick: AI tutors cannot replace human teachers due to motivation needs
“People need extrinsic motivation to learn. It turns out that there's value in having an instructor guiding the direction of a class, that there's value in putting things into practice. So even an incredible AI tutor that knows you and loves you really well, do…”
Mollick: AI researchers lack understanding of their models' societal implications
“The people train the models are all computer scientists, basically. I mean doing computer science, And they don't have a huge idea of the implications of the systems.”
Mollick: AI progress will continue as workplace integration has barely begun
“Option one is this is it like the, you know, the models don't get much better or, you know, and it's sort of this whole thing sort of fizzles out. I think this is unlikely because I think not only will models get better, but also we haven't even started integr…”
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…”
Mollick: Meta open-sources AI models to spoil competitors' businesses
“So Meta doesn't really want to make money from models. So they're going to spoil, you know, their rivals, right?”
Mollick: Penn grads raised more VC in 2022 than France and Germany
“More money went to graduates from Penn, from the school I teach at, and last time I checked in twenty-twenty-two than everybody in France and Germany put together.”
Mollick: OpenAI partially abandoned its world-changing Code Interpreter product
“Code Interpreter is, is a huge world-changing product for data analysts that got partially abandoned by OpenAI.”
Mollick: Using AI to cut headcount forces employees to hide AI usage
“And we're used to IT solutions being a cost saving measure, right? If I get a 30% of productivity boost, I fire 30% of people. Your people are never going to show you how to use AI at that rate.”
Mollick: Good human managers make better AI power users than coders
“So coders are often not the best users. Often the best users are people who are actually really good at working with humans.”
Mollick: Major AI labs lack educators and fail to understand teaching
“And I don't think a lot of the AI firms know that I know this cause we're deep working with all of them on things like education and like, they don't really understand education. There's no educators there. So they don't really understand what teachers do. And…”
Mollick: Research shows VCs are unaffected by pitch presentation skills
“There's this really interesting research that shows that venture capitalists Are not swayed at all by the quality of the speaker. Their ability to be a good speaker or not is absolutely irrelevant. Amateur and angel investors are swayed by that.”
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…”
Mollick: AI accounts for at most 0.1% of US power consumption
“Right now, one percent of US power goes to data centers, and maybe 10% of that goes to AI at most.”
Mollick: AI is 81.7% more persuasive than humans in controlled experiments
“Like now on the other hand, we do find that AI is hyper persuasive already, right? In a controlled experiment where you do, where you're apps to be, you talk to a normal person versus the AI, you're 81.7% more likely to change your views, the AI's view than to…”
Mollick: Exponential progress in AI models will continue for a while
“I have gone back and forth on how much juice the technology has left, and now I'm back to the, it has lots of juice left, like the exponential continues for a while, and I think I was not clear on that for a long time.”
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…”
Mollick: Open-Source GPT-4 Level AI Models Will Become Ubiquitous
“We now have an open source GPT four capable model and it's going to be everywhere.”
Mollick: AI's 'jagged' capabilities prevent it from fully replacing human labor
“Like right now that, you know, as we talk about in our research, AI is jagged. So it's really good at some stuff, really bad at other things. So, you know, and as a result, it can't sub in for all of human work because on one hand, it'll do a great job and som…”
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- 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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| 20VCLEDGER | Associate Professor, Wharton School | 1 | 55 | 63% 15/24 | full record on 20VC → |