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As a longtime reader (and writer of two small pieces in the 1990s) of WIRED, I was curious if the coverage of the AI era really does differ from its coverage of the early internet. A couple of experiments with Astra shows it does. Interpretation depends on your view of AI, though https://t.co/3h2P7PFaDK
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- Ethan Mollick
- What
- compares WIRED’s coverage of the AI era with its coverage of the early internet using experiments with Astra
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A couple of experiments with Astra shows it does.
What happened
As a longtime reader (and writer of two small pieces in the 1990s) of WIRED, I was curious if the coverage of the AI era really does differ from its coverage of the early internet. A couple of experiments with Astra shows it does. Interpretation depends on your view of AI, though
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See the full storyEthan Mollick Compares WIRED’s AI Era Coverage With Its Early Internet CoverageAs a longtime reader (and writer of two small pieces in the 1990s) of WIRED, I was curious if the coverage of the AI era really does differ from its coverage of the early internet. A couple of experiments with Astra shows it does. Interpretation depends on your view of AI, though https://t.co/3h2P7PFaDK
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Ethan Mollick used a couple of experiments with Astra to compare WIRED’s coverage of the AI era with its coverage of the early internet, and said the coverage differs. He added that how to interpret the difference depends on one’s view of AI.
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