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Co-Intelligence Living and Working with AI
The book in one sentence
Generative AI is a strange, powerful and uneven new kind of co-worker, and the people who learn its strengths and weaknesses by using it will get the most from it.
Who it's for
Managers, teachers, professionals and business owners who know AI matters but aren’t sure how to start using it well, and anyone who has tried a chatbot once and given up.
The big idea
Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School who studies innovation, argues that large language models are a general-purpose technology that can help with almost any task involving words, ideas or analysis. They are also unpredictable: brilliant at some things, poor at others, and prone to making things up with total confidence. Since nobody, including the companies that build them, fully knows what they can do, the best way to learn is hands-on use in your own work.
The full summary continues with the five ideas worth keeping, three things to try this week, the 5-minute deep dive and our full verdict, as a PDF to keep.
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