Co-Intelligence
Living and Working with AI
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
**A New York Times Bestseller**
'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth
Consumer AI has arrived. And with it, inescapable upheaval as we grapple with what it means for our jobs, lives and the future of humanity.
Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, he urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher and coach. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking and optimistic, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.
Customer Reviews
Intelligent life
Author
American. Professor at Wharton. Specialties: entrepreneurship, innovation, AI. In his Substack profile, he notes that he is “trying to understand what our new AI-haunted era means for work and education.” Personally, I would put the full stop after “means”.
Well-written beginner level overview of the state of play with LLMs (large language models) about 12 months or so ago, when the author finished writing it. Numerous examples given, some of which I found more illuminating than others. He didn’t explain what the difference is between Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, and x.AI etc. I already knew what they had in common: they’re all money pits.
Mollick repeatedly states that AI’s are not human beings, but it’s best to treat them as if they were. I tried to have a conversation with Siri about that, but she wouldn’t talk to me, principally because I hadn’t turned her on. Hmm. Maybe Mollick was right.
Bottom line
The title implies that intelligence exists at both ends of the human-AI nexus. I don’t believe it is safe to presume either pertains.