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Author, AI creative and educator, OpenAI's original prompt engineer and former science communicator, host of The OpenAI Podcast, and Wall Street Journal best-selling novelist.

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Andrew Mayne is an artificial intelligence creative, educator and Wall Street Journal best selling author Andrew Mayne is the founder of Interdimensional , a firm that helps companies utilize artificial intelligence. He previously served as OpenAI’s Science Communicator and was its first prompt engineer, contributing to GPT-3, ChatGPT, and GPT-4. Andrew is

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Will AI displace humans in the economy and culture?

The question of how much compute it takes to replace humans in the workforce is unnecessarily reductive. Creating efficiencies does not guarantee humans will prefer a

34 min Oct
2025

Apps Inside ChatGPT: A Glimpse into the Future of AI-Native Development

At this year’s OpenAI Dev Day, I think we saw the next chapter of software unfold. The big headline wasn’t just about new models—it was about

Sora: The ChatGPT Moment for Generative Video

Seventy-two hours ago, OpenAI launched Sora, an invite-only app that has already climbed to the top of Apple’s App Store. In just three days, it’s changed

Thoughts about OpenAI GPT-5-Codex from my conversation with Greg Brockman and Thibault Sottiaux

For the latest episode of the OpenAI Podcast I sat down with OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman and Code engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux to talk

Inside the Launch of GPT-4

With GPT-4 now stepping back from its starring role in ChatGPT, I want to share a few of my favorite memories from its launch. I originally

12 min Jan
2025

Understanding AI Hallucinations: How AI and Humans Make Similar Mistakes

In this video, we delve into the concept of AI hallucinations by comparing them to human cognitive errors. We explore how both humans and AI can

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Drawing from his expertise in artificial intelligence and his tenure as the Science Communicator for OpenAI, coupled with his creative background, Andrew Mayne provides insights on technological acceleration and offers practical strategies for embracing creativity in an AI-centric landscape.

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Will AI displace humans in the economy and culture? The question of how much compute it takes to replace humans in the workforce is unnecessarily reductive. Creating efficiencies does

Apps Inside ChatGPT: A Glimpse into the Future of AI-Native Development At this year’s OpenAI Dev Day, I think we saw the next chapter of software unfold. The big headline wasn’t

Sora: The ChatGPT Moment for Generative Video Seventy-two hours ago, OpenAI launched Sora, an invite-only app that has already climbed to the top of Apple’s App Store.

Thoughts about OpenAI GPT-5-Codex from my conversation with Greg Brockman and Thibault Sottiaux For the latest episode of the OpenAI Podcast I sat down with OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman and Code

Inside the Launch of GPT-4 With GPT-4 now stepping back from its starring role in ChatGPT, I want to share a few of my favorite

Understanding AI Hallucinations: How AI and Humans Make Similar Mistakes In this video, we delve into the concept of AI hallucinations by comparing them to human cognitive errors. We explore

Can You Dramatically Improve Results on the Latest Large Language Model Reasoning Benchmark With a Simple Prompt? tldr: Yes. A recent paper, GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models, makes the claim that

How to use GPT-4 with Vision for Robotics and Other Applications TLDR: There are multiple ways you can use GPT-4 with Vision to power robotics and other systems. I included several

Improving GPT-4’s Visual Reasoning with Prompting TLDR: How to boost GPT-4 with Vision’s capabilities with a simple prompt addition. A recent paper How Far Are We

Is the Reversal Curse Real? A recent paper The Reversal Curse points out an apparent failure in large large language models like GPT-4. From the

My Custom Instructions for ChatGPT tldr: Custom instructions let you provide ChatGPT with relevant information of your choice about you and how you like to

How to get GPT-4 to play Wordle (and other prompt tricks) tl;dr: One of the tricks to using GPT-4 well is understanding how it sees text and instructions When we started

ChatGPT + Code Interpreter = Magic tl;dr: OpenAI is testing the ability to run code and use third-party plugins in ChatGPT. OpenAI has announced that we’re

Collaborative Creative Writing with OpenAI’s ChatGPT tl;dr: You can use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to bounce ideas around and write story outlines Since I got into the field

The Easy Guide to Using OpenAI’s Whisper Model to Transcribe Video and Audio OpenAI recently released Whisper, an open source automatic speech recognition model that’s incredibly powerful. I’m biased (I’m the Science Communicator

Building games and apps entirely through natural language using OpenAI’s code-davinci model TL;DR: OpenAI has a new code generating model that’s improved in a number of ways and can handle nearly two

Smarter than you think: Crystalline and fluid intelligence in large language models Large models like GPT-3 can perform a variety of tasks with little instruction. That said, one of the challenges in

How to get better Q&A answers from GPT-3 GPT-3 is an exceptional mimic. It looks at the text input and attempts to respond with what text it thinks

Video: GPT-3 and long lists GPT-3 can remember hundreds of items and perform completions with them. This is useful if you want to take your

A simple method to keep GPT-3 focused in a conversation OpenAI’s GPT-3 is a highly capable general language model able to talk about almost anything. While this is an advantage

OpenAI API Classification Endpoint We recently added three new endpoints to the API for GPT-3. The Classification Endpoint makes it easy to apply classification

How large is GPT-3’s short term memory? TL;DR: In an API call GPT-3 can recall details from a 1,500 word article and even repeat passages verbatim. It

The GPT-3 Zero Shot approach TL;DR: For many tasks you don’t need to provide GPT-3 with examples because it already understands what you want. If

Advanced Prompt Design for GPT-3: How to make a prompt 20x more efficient TL;DR: GPT-3 is much more capable than people realize when you utilize advanced prompt design that shows it what you

Overclocking OpenAI’s GPT-3 Here’s a fun fact: OpenAI’s GPT-3 is actually a family of models, Ada, Babbage, Curie and Davinci that have different

The best kept secret about OpenAI’s GPT-3 When the first demos of GPT-3 content started to circulate it showed the amazing potential for a really smart language

OpenAI API Alchemy: Turn a script into a novel (and vice versa) OpenAI’s API allows for incredibly intelligent text comprehension and transformation. For fun I made a little application that takes a

OpenAI API Alchemy: Emoji storytelling 🤖 OpenAI’s API is incredibly versatile at comprehending text and completing passages, finding data and generating new information. For fun I

OpenAI Alchemy: Turn a sentence into an email I’d like to show one of the API’s other superpowers: Its ability to expand a small thought into a larger

Will artificial intelligence ever write a novel? Will artificial intelligence ever write a novel? I believe the answer is “Yes.”

OpenAI API Alchemy: Smart Formatting and Code Creation A few years ago I built an app for dictation that was intended to solve one of the biggest frustrations

OpenAI API Alchemy: Summarization OpenAI’s API is incredibly adept at picking up patterns in text. From determining the format to the context, it only

The AI Channels project A few months ago a remarkable thing happened: I got a glimpse of the future. OpenAI, a group of artificial

My 7 Favorite Writing Tools 1. Noise-cancelling headphones I use my Apple AirPods Pro whenever I want to tune out the world. They’re not cheap

Writing A Novel In 24-Hours: My One-Day NaNoWriMo Experiment TL;DR: I wrote a 50,000 word novel in less than 24-hours using dictation. “You can drive a car with your

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