Real AI Agents and Real Work – by Ethan Mollick

Last week, OpenAI released a new test of AI ability, but this one differs from the usual benchmarks built around math or trivia. For this test, OpenAI gathered experts with an average of 14 years of experience in industries ranging from finance to law to retail and...

ChatGPT: The Agentic App – by Nathan Lambert

If OpenAI is positioning itself to be The Agentic App, this also opens the door to the near future where many applications we use today shift to an agentic era5. Want to schedule a meeting with someone? Let the Google Calendar agent handle that (or some startup that...

middle management is what the other guy does

I am back to thinking about artificial intelligence, which means that I am once more considering the Stafford Beer joke which is one of the central set texts of this blog: “When businesses adopted the computer, they tended to use it to automate their existing...