A case study of why I think that we overestimate the perfection level of our work prior to AI, and underestimate the degree to which AI may already be good enough at some critical tasks where it is not perfect.
Ethan Mollick
Ethan MollickNov 23, 2022
🤯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 automatically makes dates. The issue was found in 2016, but still hasn’t improved!
The issue was found in 2016, but didn’t improve until 2023 (maybe AI actually helped?)
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