# Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 - by Ethan Mollick

<https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini>

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## What Jamie wrote

Mollick's book "Co-Intelligence" is a great read to introduce pragmatic ways that LLMs and AI may change different parts of society. Here he reflects on the continued progress of LLMs with this weeks Gemini 3 announcements.

> Three years ago, we were impressed that a machine could write a poem about otters. Less than 1,000 days later, I am debating statistical methodology with an agent that built its own research environment. The era of the chatbot is turning into the era of the digital coworker.

It is an incredible time to play and experiment. I was telling some friends how much fine I’m having playing with Agent stuff and this analogy works for me. Imagine that you have spent decades playing with LEGO and it is so fun. Building things. Trying stuff out. Incredible. And then one day you get LEGO's that move. Your mind is blown. That is what building software with LLMs feels like.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT333: Weekly Thing 333 / Gemini, LangChain, Illusion](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/333/), Notable

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