For instance, here's a thread about the Turing Trap written by chat.openai.com/chat based on the abstract of the paper. 1/ In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the "imitation game" as a test for AI - could it imitate a human so well that its answers were indistinguishable from a human's? Since then, creating AI that matches human intelligence has been a goal.

Polarization, a🧵

30 years ago, the Internet was hailed as creating a globally connected community.

Yet today, we're seeing more attention to how social media are *increasing* polarization.

E.g. @elipariser @JonHaidt and others

#filterbubble
#cyberbalkans
#polarization

1/n @elipariser @JonHaidt What’s driving the increased online polarization?

Marshall van Alstyne explore how greater connectivity could great filter bubbles and amplify differences between groups in our 1996 and 2005 papers.

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Here's a preview our our results Here's the talk outline

Next up at the ASSA meetings, my paper with Lindsey Raymond:

Augmented Intelligence: Effects of AI on Productivity and Work Practices

Link:
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Please join us!

@LindseyRRaymond @DigEconLab #EconTwitter @LindseyRRaymond @DigEconLab Abstract
How does technology affect the organization and dissemination of knowledge in production? Production knowledge is often tacit and embodied in individual workers and managers,...

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If you're registered for the ASSA meeting, there's a great presentation about AI and Labor starting now:

"Using Language Models to Understand Wage Premia"
Sarah Bana, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Link:
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@SarahHBana @DigEconLab #EconTwitter @SarahHBana @DigEconLab Using Language Models to Understand Wage Premia

Abstract
Does the text content of a job posting predict the salary offered for the role? There is ample evidence that even within an occupation, a job's skills and tasks affect the job's salary.

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On November 9-10, @StanfordHAI will host a major conference on Policy and AI. It will feature Four Radical Proposals for Better Society.

Here's an interview with @DanHo1 and me discussing the conference:

hai.stanford.edu/news/four-radi… @StanfordHAI @DanHo1 The Four Radical Proposals we will feature are:

1. Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang: Universal Basic Income to Offset Job Losses Due to Automation

hai.stanford.edu/news/radical-p…

Our new @nberpubs paper is out:

"Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey".

We report on the adoption of AI, cloud computing, robotics and the digitization of business information at 850,000 firms.
nber.org/papers/w28290 @nberpubs We find that digitization is quite widespread, as is some use of cloud computing.

In contrast, advanced technology adoption is rare and generally skewed towards larger and older firms.

A thread about my new @nberpubs paper with @sethbenzell:

Digital innovation is delivering remarkable progress.

Yet returns to ordinary labor (Median wages) and ordinary capital (interest rates) are both historically low. 1/n @nberpubs One research literature addresses low median wages and falling labor share.

A completely different literature seeks to explain low interest rates and lack of capital investment.

We explain both of these sets facts with one model.

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