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Alex Imas

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And then the warehouse gets automated.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So part of that automation is going to be kind of loading that truck.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And then the truck gets loaded through automation.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And then that truck drives from A to B. That's fully automated.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Protection is actually a big deal.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Like if somebody stops it on the road, a Waymo truck, they could just stop it on the road and rob the truck, right?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

That's one element.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Then that no longer is as important perhaps for that to be a human task.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Exactly.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And think about the incentives of the company to invest in this technology.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It's huge.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

These are very, you know, these are some of the only jobs, truck driving, where, you know, you don't need a college degree to earn a lot of money.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And so there's a big incentive on the company.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

I mean, I think everybody's looking at software engineering.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

I think you have to think about where the technology works best now is verifiable tasks, right?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Where you have a lot of data where you can say this is good or bad.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Not in a supervised learning sense, but in general, it needs to be verified.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

That's why math, in research, math has been the big kind of boom as far as what are people talking about on the internet as being automated.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Math is verifiable.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

A proof is either right or wrong.