Joe Wiesenthal
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Maybe there will be new jobs.
Anyway, someone who's been talking and thinking a lot about this and why AI might be different.
We're going to be speaking.
Really have the perfect guest, Alex Zimas.
He is a professor of economics and applied AI at University of Chicago.
Does a lot of writing on this topic.
So, Alex, thank you so much for coming on OddLots.
Thank you for having me.
It's pretty cool that you have the job of a professor of economics and applied AI.
It worked out pretty well.
It's a good time.
You picked a good field, yeah?
Yeah, the generality of it, I mean, I guess literally, that's the G, right?
Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, no, I mean, absolutely.
I have to say, this is an aside, but learning a little bit more about where AI was pre-LLMs or pre-ChatGPT almost makes me even more impressed.
Like the leap.
I don't know if this is a comment, but when you look at some of what was cutting edge in 2019, and then you look at what's cutting edge in late 2022, I'm almost more impressed than if I hadn't known what they were up to in 2019.
That's a huge gap in those few years.