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Alex Imas

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

it had access to this file that it was carrying and you started a new agent for a new job, you weren't starting fresh in the sense that you weren't getting kind of the same draw and forgot about the whole experience.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It would actually start out being predisposed against you in some ways.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It'll be grumpy.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But the effect is... Yeah, I'm talking about the effect.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Yeah.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

That's the big question.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

That's what we're doing recently.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So I don't have an answer for you.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But we know exactly what you just mentioned is that they're saying that they're grumpy is just, you know, this is just an association within the matrix of embeddings that these models are running on.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So there's this work in neuroscience and neuroscience is now much more closely linked to computer science than it used to be.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But thinking about like, what are these associations between embeddings mean?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Like when a model says that it's sad, how should we interpret it as humans in relation to me saying it's sad?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It got sad and it wrote a file about you now.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

I don't take them super seriously.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Okay.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

That part, the whole labor market disruption thing, I'm taking very, very seriously.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

The whole part about it's trying breaking out and it doesn't want to betray its friends.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It doesn't want to delete its data.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

I think that's just cosplay.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Cosplay could be very serious.