One Useful Thing

is the name of Ethan Mollick’s substack newsletter. Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs.

Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/

Check out Ethan’s quick guide to using AI right now here: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-right-now-a-quick-guide

Extracting text with manual steps

by Chris Rufe | Oct 30, 2025 | AI

So close, yet so far away? I feel a whiplash effect it seems when ChatGPT amazes me with some esoteric explanation (remember to verify boys and girls), but then gets hung up on what seems like the simplest thing. I was having a conversation with ChatGPT. I had...

Perplexed-ity?

AI

Perplexed-ity? I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives I've read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity's Comet browser. I want to like them and I want to cheer...

AI Action plan, and stuff

AI, News

AI Action plan Here ya go folks - this is the current administration's AI Action Plan: https://www.ai.gov/action-plan Here are some words from the current administration about preventing "woke AI" in the federal government...

“Accumulation of Cognitive Debt”

AI

There's an article published at MIT that studied "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study - definitely...

The upside of AI

AI

Positive thoughts? I came across two older items last week that really made me feel good about Artificial Intelligence and some of the good aspects and possibilities. Like most people grounded in reality, the very impact of AI's disruption on the job front and...

That “aha!” moment – a simple image

AI

I finally committed to the "Plus" ($20 a month) version of ChatGPT and have been finding more and more things to use it for, and trying my best not to use it as lazy google. Hum de dum and I'm looking at making an AI Policy for TQuist, as well as provide information...