Ethan Mollick: "A fun experiment for academics: Paste your favorite paper into Gemini 2.5 (assuming open rights) and ask it to turn it into a working game with "Canvas" turned on. This was in one go, I just trimmed out the waiting times from the video to get it under a min. I love the references to specific tables"

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Ethan Mollick

‪@emollick.bsky.social‬

A fun experiment for academics: Paste your favorite paper into Gemini 2.5 (assuming open rights) and ask it to turn it into a working game with "Canvas" turned on. This was in one go, I just trimmed out the waiting times from the video to get it under a min. I love the references to specific tables

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‪Ethan Mollick‬ ‪@emollick.bsky.social‬

Prompts: "turn this paper into an interactive fun game, make sure the game mechanics are both fun and reflect key points from the paper [pasted in full text]" "this is kinda lame though, there are no trade offs, no story, and no cool graphics"