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Joe Wiesenthal

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Let's go back to that starting point.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So like if someone makes a model that could tell the difference between written and spoken word, that's mind blowing.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It's incredible breakthrough, but that's not a general technology.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

That's a specific technology.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Okay, so I made it longer.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

No, I made it a little bit longer.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Great.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It's because I talked for so long.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So I set up this sort of – maybe it's a straw man, but I set up this sort of straw man that maybe we're going to knock down in this conversation.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But how would you describe this sort of modal view of the impact of AI on the labor market among the economics profession?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

to the extent there is one?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And if the lever part gets automated, the theory is that not only will Tracy be more productive and should get paid more for it.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Can I just ask you a quick question here, too?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Like, how good are we, and by we, I guess the economists who study this, at, like, actually being able to, like, here is a job that someone has, write down a list of these tasks, right?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

describe, how good are we at describing the list of tasks?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Okay, we're good.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Yeah, talk about that.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So this is really interesting.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

We're good at writing down the list of the tasks.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

We are not good at writing down the sort of like deep relational links to the task and how they fit together.