| 1 | Mar 14, '23 | 🤯🤯Well this is something else. GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass... The Bar Exam: 90% LSAT: 88% GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99% Every AP, the SAT... | 120× | 10.7M | 19k | 3.7k | 3.7k |
| 2 | Nov 27, '23 | It isn't just AI generated text that is starting to bleed over into search results. The main image if you do a Google search for Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (whose versio | 79.4× | 7.1M | 15k | 2k | 1.2k |
| 3 | May 13, '24 | Full analysis from a single command. Nice. | 65.9× | 5.9M | 6.5k | 724 | 4.9k |
| 4 | Apr 10, '23 | This is quite the paper! It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town. Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valenti | 62.9× | 5.6M | 16k | 3.1k | 8.2k |
| 5 | Mar 30, '23 | GPT-4 is so close to creating a universal educational simulator based on just a paragraph prompt. Take a look at this simulated negotiation, with grading and feedback. Prompt: "I w | 56.7× | 5.1M | 18k | 1.9k | 13k |
| 6 | May 21, '23 | Noise is a secret destroyer of productivity. It is secret because it impacts cognition, not effort, so we don’t notice, but a 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) lo | 56.5× | 5M | 23k | 5.1k | 7.8k |
| 7 | Feb 19, '23 | Some lessons of the insane past 4 days of generative AI, as someone who had access to Bing during and after the "Sydney" era. (Trying this as a long tweet rather than a thread...) | 56.3× | 5M | 7k | 1.1k | 2.8k |
| 8 | Jan 22, '23 | I think we haven't fully absorbed the fact that careful academic papers have found ChatGPT clearly passes some of the most challenging American professional exams: 🩺United States | 49.7× | 4.4M | 9k | 1.6k | 909 |
| 9 | Jan 15, '25 | New randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other | 47.9× | 4.3M | 11k | 2.2k | 5.2k |
| 10 | Mar 19, '23 | Not sure how to feel about this as an academic: I put one of my old papers into GPT-4 (broken into into 2 parts) and asked for a harsh but fair peer review from a economic sociolog | 36.5× | 3.3M | 7.7k | 798 | 2.6k |
| 11 | Jun 22, '23 | It gets better: Grand Theft Auto games lower crime rates When a GTA game is released, violence & crime actually drop, as potential criminals stay inside to play (This applies t | 29× | 2.6M | 8.9k | 1.7k | 1.4k |
| 12 | Apr 3, '23 | You can get much better results out of ChatGPT by forcing it to go through a step-by-step process. An example: ChatGPT is generally really bad at creating interesting puzzles and s | 28.9× | 2.6M | 7.1k | 754 | 8.5k |
| 13 | Apr 1, '23 | The new BloombergGPT AI may be harbinger of the next wave of corporate AI. Current AIs are trained on web data (though firms can add their own training) BloombergGPT is 52% either | 26.8× | 2.4M | 3.9k | 578 | 1.9k |
| 14 | Mar 9, '24 | The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles need | 26.4× | 2.3M | 9.8k | 1.7k | 5.2k |
| 15 | Apr 3, '23 | I asked GPT-4 to create a mini Harvard Business School case study on Google’s challenges releasing a fictional generative AI along with an instructors note on running the case. It | 25.7× | 2.3M | 4.8k | 600 | 4.4k |
| 16 | Apr 13, '23 | Chemists give GPT-4 access to chemical databases & control of off-the-shelf lab robotics to create an "Intelligent Agent system capable of autonomously designing, planning & | 25.2× | 2.2M | 5k | 773 | 2.4k |
| 17 | Apr 8, '23 | It is pretty amazing that a single prompt can have GPT-4 generate ideas, select one, give the next development steps, create a marketing pitch, and describe a UX. And one more prom | 23.6× | 2.1M | 4.6k | 415 | 7.1k |
| 18 | Dec 17, '22 | Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche t | 23.5× | 2.1M | 11k | 4.3k | 1.5k |
| 19 | Apr 29, '23 | This 🤯 is a very big 🤯 I have access to the new GPT Code Interpreter. I uploaded an XLS file, no context: "Can you do visualizations & descriptive analyses to help me underst | 23.2× | 2.1M | 5.6k | 1k | 3.7k |
| 20 | May 3, '23 | The new version of Midjourney that released yesterday shows how far AI has come in making commerical-level images from text alone Here is what you get for "modern outfits inspired | 22.5× | 2M | 6k | 899 | 1.4k |
| 21 | Mar 1, '24 | |￣￣￣￣￣ ￣| | This can | | hack AI | | now. | | ＿＿＿＿＿_ | (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / づ Paper showing that ASCII art can get around AI guardrails. Its the return of 1980s hackers. | 22.4× | 2M | 31k | 3.5k | 9.8k |
| 22 | Jan 3, '23 | Extraordinary new paper from Google on medicine & AI: When Google tuned a AI chatbot to answer common medical questions, doctors judged 92.6% of its answers right … compared to | 22.2× | 2M | 8k | 1.7k | 1.9k |
| 23 | Aug 28, '24 | Wow, diffusion models (used in AI image generation) are also game engines - a type of world simulation. By predicting the next frame of the classic shooter DOOM, you get a playable | 19.9× | 1.8M | 9.1k | 1.1k | 3k |
| 24 | May 23, '25 | Huh. Looks like Plato was right. A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model's embedding | 19.3× | 1.7M | 13k | 1.5k | 10k |
| 25 | Jun 8, '24 | Civilization VII was announced today. The Civ series is sort of like Ender’s Game, but for management rather than murdering aliens. Business school students who were good at Civ V | 18.4× | 1.6M | 9.4k | 1.3k | 3.9k |
| 26 | Jul 18, '24 | 👀Claude handles an insane request: “Remove the squid” “The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't c | 17.6× | 1.6M | 11k | 1.2k | 3.5k |
| 27 | Apr 17, '23 | This is very cool: it has become a lot easier to read academic research. If you open a paper in Microsoft Edge (I know, I know), the Bing AI sidebar can read the PDF and you can as | 17.4× | 1.6M | 4.7k | 520 | 2.9k |
| 28 | Apr 15, '23 | Neat! Hey, GPT-4: "Invent a board game using emoji that we can play against each other. Give it a theme from Shakespeare's Tempest. Set up the board and explain the rules & let | 17.2× | 1.5M | 3.4k | 350 | 1.6k |
| 29 | Feb 16, '23 | Wow. | 17× | 1.5M | 4.1k | 556 | 1.3k |
| 30 | Dec 11, '23 | OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may actually be true? There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it "learned" to do less work over the h | 15.5× | 1.4M | 4.3k | 623 | 1.2k |
| 31 | Apr 17, '23 | The wisdom of the crowd works even if the crowd is totally drunk. This study got undergrads intoxicated & found that while drunk individuals make a lot more errors, the consens | 14.4× | 1.3M | 3.8k | 530 | 901 |
| 32 | Aug 23, '25 | It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less inj | 13.9× | 1.2M | 5.6k | 667 | 856 |
| 33 | Sep 8, '24 | There are now papers showing that the migration of academic communities from Twitter to other social media sites mostly failed. But they never fully returned to Twitter either. I w | 13.5× | 1.2M | 3.3k | 780 | 885 |
| 34 | Feb 16, '23 | It is already clear that Bing AI is a big a leap over ChatGPT as ChatGPT was over the old GPT-3 model It generated paper ideas based on my previous papers, found gaps in the litera | 13.2× | 1.2M | 5.1k | 700 | 2.2k |
| 35 | Sep 8, '23 | In a new paper showing that AI comes up with more effective prompts for other AIs than humans do, there is this gem that shows how weird AIs are... The single most effective prompt | 13× | 1.2M | 4.1k | 607 | 2.4k |
| 36 | Jun 18, '23 | Whatever bad faith arguments you see on Twitter today, Schopenhauer already thought of how to use them 115 years ago as part of his 38 Stratagems to unfairly win an argument. Twitt | 11.5× | 1M | 3.8k | 764 | 3k |
| 37 | Jan 24, '22 | Here are the lighthouses of Europe. The map is even better than it might seem at first glance: the colors are the real colors, the patterns are the real patterns, and the size of t | 11.3× | 0 | 36k | 8.8k | 2.9k |
| 38 | Sep 27, '24 | It is amazing how the industry came together to invent a universal USB-C connector and then decided to instead make it all a giant mess. | 10.4× | 930k | 12k | 1.2k | 2.6k |
| 39 | Oct 10, '25 | This paper shows that you can predict actual purchase intent (90% accuracy) by asking an LLM to impersonate a customer with a demographic profile, giving it a product & having | 10.2× | 904k | 7.6k | 678 | 8.8k |
| 40 | Jun 4, '21 | One of my favorite scientific figures is this one of the entropy levels of 100 world cities by the orientation of streets. The cities with most ordered streets: Chicago, Miami, &am | 10.0× | 0 | 30k | 6.5k | 4.1k |
| 41 | Feb 7, '25 | This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model. They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick wher | 9.9× | 877k | 8.9k | 935 | 6.7k |
| 42 | Nov 4, '24 | "Hey Claude with computer use, watch this construction site video & write up things you see that dangerous or good, create a spreadsheet of critical issues to address" (sped up | 9.3× | 832k | 5.6k | 618 | 4.5k |
| 43 | Jan 21, '25 | $500B committed towards AGI, still no articulated vision of what a world with AGI looks like for most people. Even the huge essay by the CEO of Anthropic doesn't paint a vivid pict | 9.3× | 831k | 6.1k | 368 | 1.6k |
| 44 | Sep 2, '24 | Air conditioning lets you use your brain more Students do worse when its hot. Over 13 years in NYC alone, "upwards of 510,000 exams that otherwise would have passed likely received | 9.2× | 820k | 6.3k | 970 | 2.1k |
| 45 | Aug 1, '23 | In this study, AI was more accurate than two thirds of radiologists, yet when radiologists had AI help their diagnoses did not improve. Why? Humans ignored the AI’s advice when it | 9.2× | 815k | 3.4k | 656 | 993 |
| 46 | Jun 27, '23 | Having a little too much fun stressing out Bing/GPT-4 using its new ability to recognize images... | 8.2× | 728k | 4.5k | 605 | 648 |
| 47 | Mar 4, '23 | Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo. | 7.9× | 700k | 4.5k | 692 | 599 |
| 48 | Oct 14, '24 | You really, really should not trust audio clips anymore Even a couple months ago, it used to take a commercial service to clone a voice. No more. Here is me creating a voice clone | 6.8× | 606k | 4.6k | 548 | 4.6k |
| 49 | Nov 17, '23 | I have no idea why Sam Altman was fired and, from the 10,000 other posts on the topic, nobody else does either. As a result, no one knows what this means for OpenAI or AI in genera | 6.6× | 585k | 4.6k | 384 | 169 |
| 50 | Feb 8, '25 | It always stuck me as interesting that the very first things people felt comfortable giving over to AI to do for them were the most intimate things: birthday cards, wedding speeche | 6.1× | 543k | 8.5k | 492 | 663 |
| 51 | Sep 18, '24 | Google's NotebookLM is the current best "wow this is amazing & useful" demo of AI Here I gave it the entire text of my book, it turned it into a podcast, a study guide, FAQ, ti | 5.9× | 528k | 4.4k | 587 | 4.3k |
| 52 | Jan 20, '25 | The raw chain of thought from DeepSeek is fascinating, really reads like a human thinking out loud. Charming and strange. | 5.9× | 527k | 4.2k | 421 | 1.8k |
| 53 | Nov 10, '22 | If you are out of ideas, go for a walk. This paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reas | 5.7× | 0 | 16k | 3.7k | 3.6k |
| 54 | Jul 27, '22 | Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart. | 5.7× | 0 | 18k | 3.6k | 2.4k |
| 55 | Aug 17, '23 | Is there a worse recent software design choice than Zoom randomly forcing you to install updates before you join? There’s 200 people waiting on a call for a session to start and I | 5.7× | 503k | 4.2k | 174 | 68 |
| 56 | Apr 1, '24 | This is just science - go for a walk. This paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reason | 5.5× | 492k | 3.4k | 630 | 1.7k |
| 57 | Nov 26, '22 | If you last checked in on AI image makers a month ago & thought “that is a fun toy, but is far from useful…” Well, in just the last week or so two of the major AI systems updat | 5.4× | 0 | 18k | 2k | 3.6k |
| 58 | Nov 27, '23 | Seriously, don't trust anything you see online anymore. Faking stuff is trivial. You cannot tell the difference. There are no watermarks, and watermarks can be defeated easily. Thi | 4.9× | 439k | 7.2k | 529 | 89 |
| 59 | Dec 10, '23 | It’s DOOM’s 30th anniversary. There is a long tradition of trying to make the classic shooter run on inappropriate hardware. So here it is running on a graphing calculator powered | 4.9× | 437k | 3.9k | 498 | 263 |
| 60 | Jan 21, '23 | Avoiding "ums" and "ahs" when you speak may actually make what you say less memorable, since these "speech disfluencies" appear to serve a real purpose. They boost a listener's mem | 4.8× | 425k | 3.2k | 546 | 676 |
| 61 | Apr 19, '24 | Randomness is hard to achieve. It is why the security of 10% of the internet is secured by a wall of lava lamps watched by a camera to generate true randomness | 4.6× | 411k | 3.9k | 419 | 903 |
| 62 | Sep 24, '24 | If AGI is achievable, the very first people who will know it will be traders who will suddenly find all of their good strategies & trades don’t work anymore, and that an unknow | 4.6× | 409k | 3.6k | 217 | 538 |
| 63 | Jul 13, '25 | I am starting to think sycophancy is going to be a bigger problem than pure hallucination as LLMs improve. Models that won’t tell you directly when you are wrong (and justify your | 4.3× | 382k | 3.3k | 407 | 488 |
| 64 | Nov 27, '23 | One side effect from AI is that the corpus of human knowledge from mid-2023 on will have to be treated fundamentally differently than prior to 2023. A huge amount of what you learn | 3.9× | 344k | 5.2k | 625 | 151 |
| 65 | Oct 19, '24 | Half the nitrogen in your body comes from the Haber-Bosch process. | 3.8× | 342k | 3.6k | 364 | 869 |
| 66 | Oct 23, '24 | The ability of multimodal AI to “understand” images is underrated. I just took these. Given the first photo Claude guesses where I am. Given the second it identifies the type of pl | 3.8× | 341k | 3.7k | 230 | 826 |
| 67 | Aug 10, '22 | Birds give up the complexity of song for volume in noisy places - so they sing louder but less interesting (to both humans & mates) songs in cities. When traffic noise in San F | 3.8× | 0 | 13k | 2.7k | 924 |
| 68 | Dec 2, '22 | Look, if everyone is worried about students cheating on essays for AI, instructors can just cheat right back. I asked OpenAI to give me an essay question & make a rubric for gr | 3.5× | 0 | 10k | 1.4k | 2.5k |
| 69 | Jul 19, '22 | Of all of the “dangers of AI” papers, this is most worrying: AI researchers building a tool to find new drugs to save lives realized it could do the opposite, generating new chemic | 3.4× | 0 | 8.9k | 2.2k | 2.4k |
| 70 | Nov 27, '23 | Nice analogy. We are at the KT Boundary for information. Archivists should lock down the pre-2023 information world. What comes after is going to be… different. | 3.4× | 299k | 3.5k | 309 | 111 |
| 71 | Jun 5, '21 | The secret heart of academia is... Wikipedia. In an experiment, this paper found that a single quality Wikipedia article written by chemistry experts influenced the content of 250 | 3.0× | 0 | 9.4k | 2.2k | 967 |
| 72 | Oct 13, '24 | After today’s SpaceX launch it seems increasingly likely that this man will be Bishop of Mars. According to the 1917 Code of Canon Law, any newly discovered territory is placed und | 2.9× | 254k | 4.8k | 375 | 449 |
| 73 | Feb 23, '25 | I got one of those CO2 meters everyone is talking about and was horrified to learn that the CO2 levels in my home and office are fine and that I cannot easily boost my intellectual | 2.7× | 238k | 12k | 362 | 345 |
| 74 | Nov 5, '22 | Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever. And almost every system is a comp | 2.6× | 0 | 4.3k | 793 | 4.1k |
| 75 | Nov 22, '22 | AI has been destroying humans at adversarial games, like Chess or Go, for a bit. But now it is successfully outperforming humans at Diplomacy, the classic multiplayer game that req | 2.3× | 0 | 6.2k | 1.1k | 1.8k |
| 76 | Oct 30, '22 | Everyone on social media should know about the Illusory Truth Effect If you see something repeated enough times, it seems more true. Multiple studies show that it works on 85% of p | 2.2× | 0 | 5.2k | 1.9k | 1.3k |
| 77 | Nov 22, '22 | 🤯Because of Excel, a THIRD of all genetics papers published in top journals have errors, as many genes have names like SEPT2 (the official name of Septin 2), which Excel automatic | 2.2× | 0 | 6.9k | 1.2k | 817 |
| 78 | Jul 28, '22 | With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known start | 2.0× | 0 | 5.3k | 1k | 1.7k |
| 79 | Oct 15, '20 | A great example of borrowing innovation from one field for another. Doctors at a struggling children's hospital sent videos of their post-surgical hand-offs to Ferrari's F1 pit cre | 1.8× | 0 | 5k | 1.6k | 527 |
| 80 | May 1, '21 | Tired: startups using machine learning to detect cancer in scans with 90% accuracy. Wired: startups using flocks of pigeons to detect cancer in scans, with 99% accuracy. | 1.7× | 0 | 5.1k | 1.4k | 477 |
| 81 | May 1, '22 | The skill of surgeons varies tremendously, with bottom quartile surgeons having over 4x as many complications as the best surgeons in the same hospital. And surgeons are keenly awa | 1.7× | 0 | 5.2k | 806 | 1.1k |
| 82 | Jul 8, '22 | If you want to learn how to learn, these two charts are where you should start. They are the result of a large meta-analysis of study techniques. You should skip the highlighting, | 1.7× | 0 | 3.4k | 704 | 2.2k |
| 83 | Oct 25, '22 | I think most people who are not playing with these technologies are way underestimating the speed of advancement in "creative" AIs & how much of an impact that is going to have | 1.7× | 0 | 5.2k | 910 | 863 |
| 84 | May 6, '20 | Wow! Noise is a secret killer of performance. A 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) drops productivity by 5% - but most people don't notice since it impacts cogniti | 1.6× | 0 | 4k | 1.5k | 623 |
| 85 | Mar 29, '22 | This is cool: when AI is better than humans, it makes humans better. In 2016, the Go world was shocked when AI beat the best human player. Since then, by playing against AI, profes | 1.6× | 0 | 5.3k | 1.1k | 534 |
| 86 | Mar 16, '21 | Scientists have also successfully built logic gates by using swarms of soldier crabs. It takes about 80 🦀 to operate a logic gate, and there are 8 logic gates in a byte, so 640,00 | 1.6× | 0 | 4.4k | 1.2k | 253 |
| 87 | Sep 11, '22 | Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else. This paper find that for every 1,000 pounds a car weighs over a Toyota Corolla, the chance of killing | 1.6× | 0 | 4.5k | 1.2k | 476 |
| 88 | Feb 17, '22 | Shockingly, mindfulness apps really work. This randomized controlled trial on the Headspace app finds it reduces anxiety and depression by a huge .44 standard deviations after 4 we | 1.6× | 0 | 4.7k | 659 | 1.1k |
| 89 | Apr 28, '21 | Have you ever been asked a brainteaser in a job interview? That’s a big ⚠️ Research at Google found that brainteasers were in no way predictive of job performance. Worse, this pape | 1.6× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.1k | 670 |
| 90 | Jul 16, '22 | Here’s the chance that a kid born in the bottom 20% of the income distribution eventually reaches the top 20%, depending on where they live. Stark geographic differences & the | 1.5× | 0 | 4.1k | 964 | 895 |
| 91 | Jul 10, '22 | 👀This paper argues that half of venture capital investments are “predictably bad” (causing 10% losses - or $900M out of $9B in investments) because VCs put too much emphasis on fo | 1.5× | 0 | 3.6k | 507 | 1.7k |
| 92 | Oct 7, '21 | The paradox of our Golden Age of science: more research is being published by more scientists than ever, but the result is actually slowing progress! With too much to read & ab | 1.5× | 0 | 3.8k | 1.3k | 687 |
| 93 | Feb 5, '22 | The problem with unmoderated online spaces is that a few people will always ruin them. Most conflicts between Reddit can be traced to a handful of active users with a history of an | 1.5× | 0 | 4.1k | 1.1k | 758 |
| 94 | Nov 28, '20 | Researchers left 17,000 wallets on the streets of 355 cities, some empty, some with money. Contrary to the predictions of economists, people everywhere were more likely to return w | 1.4× | 0 | 3.7k | 1k | 437 |
| 95 | Nov 14, '22 | How email ruins your life: the expectation that you will always check your email outside of work hours is linked with negative health effects, relationship issues & anxiety. Fo | 1.3× | 0 | 3.7k | 863 | 826 |
| 96 | Dec 2, '22 | Before you get sick of OpenAI tricks, one fun one. You & an android are in front of a judge. The judge tells each of you to say one word. They will then kill whoever they think | 1.3× | 0 | 3.3k | 530 | 1.1k |
| 97 | Dec 13, '20 | No matter the language, we exchange information at 39 bits/second, suggesting a biological limit. Languages that are lower information density are spoken fast (Spanish & Japane | 1.3× | 0 | 3.7k | 1k | 528 |
| 98 | Jul 31, '24 | Three things about advanced voice on ChatGPT: 1) It is as good as the demo 2) It is clearly capable of producing a lot more audio (I occasionally get sound effects, etc) but there | 1.3× | 111k | 764 | 51 | 131 |
| 99 | Apr 28, '22 | The richest man in the world chose to champion freedom of information, transforming life for many. That man was Andrew Carnegie. The 1,500 cities that he gave libraries (at a cost | 1.2× | 0 | 4.1k | 799 | 305 |
| 100 | Sep 24 | I just got the first copies of my new book, Co-Existence (out October 20) & they look great! Also, there is a fun pre-order bonus: if you pre-order, you get a code to an AI int | 1.1× | 100k | 744 | 68 | 209 |
| 101 | Dec 5, '22 | This might be the first OpenAI result that made me actually laugh out loud. Mr. Fluffernutter's rise is indeed quite disturbing. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.6k | 384 | 292 |
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