Stephen Dubner

The Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, a master forger of the 20th century, was so good that his paintings were certified and sold, often to Nazis, as works by Johan Vermeer, a 17th century Dutch master. Now there is a new kind of art forgery happening and the perpetrators are machines. I recently got back from San Francisco, the epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom.

The Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, a master forger of the 20th century, was so good that his paintings were certified and sold, often to Nazis, as works by Johan Vermeer, a 17th century Dutch master. Now there is a new kind of art forgery happening and the perpetrators are machines. I recently got back from San Francisco, the epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom.

I was out there to do a live show, which you may have heard in our feed, and also to attend the annual American Economic Association Conference. Everywhere you go in San Francisco, there are billboards for AI companies. The conference itself was similarly blanketed.

I was out there to do a live show, which you may have heard in our feed, and also to attend the annual American Economic Association Conference. Everywhere you go in San Francisco, there are billboards for AI companies. The conference itself was similarly blanketed.

I was out there to do a live show, which you may have heard in our feed, and also to attend the annual American Economic Association Conference. Everywhere you go in San Francisco, there are billboards for AI companies. The conference itself was similarly blanketed.

There were sessions called Economic Implications of AI, Artificial Intelligence and Finance, and Large Language Models and Generative AI. The economist Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the leading scholars in this realm, and we borrowed him for our live show to hear his views on AI.

There were sessions called Economic Implications of AI, Artificial Intelligence and Finance, and Large Language Models and Generative AI. The economist Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the leading scholars in this realm, and we borrowed him for our live show to hear his views on AI.

There were sessions called Economic Implications of AI, Artificial Intelligence and Finance, and Large Language Models and Generative AI. The economist Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the leading scholars in this realm, and we borrowed him for our live show to hear his views on AI.

The day after Brynjolfsson came on our show, I attended one of his talks at the conference. It was called Will AI Save Us or Destroy Us? He cited a book by the Oxford computer scientist Michael Wooldridge called A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence. Brynjolfsson read from a list of problems that Wooldridge said AI was nowhere near solving. Here are a few of them.

The day after Brynjolfsson came on our show, I attended one of his talks at the conference. It was called Will AI Save Us or Destroy Us? He cited a book by the Oxford computer scientist Michael Wooldridge called A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence. Brynjolfsson read from a list of problems that Wooldridge said AI was nowhere near solving. Here are a few of them.

The day after Brynjolfsson came on our show, I attended one of his talks at the conference. It was called Will AI Save Us or Destroy Us? He cited a book by the Oxford computer scientist Michael Wooldridge called A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence. Brynjolfsson read from a list of problems that Wooldridge said AI was nowhere near solving. Here are a few of them.

Understanding a story and answering questions about it. Human level automated translation. Interpreting what is going on in a photograph. As Brynjolfsson is reading this list from the lectern, you're thinking, wait a minute, AI has solved all those problems, hasn't it? And that's when Brynjolfsson gets to his punchline. The Wooldridge book was published way back in 2021.

Understanding a story and answering questions about it. Human level automated translation. Interpreting what is going on in a photograph. As Brynjolfsson is reading this list from the lectern, you're thinking, wait a minute, AI has solved all those problems, hasn't it? And that's when Brynjolfsson gets to his punchline. The Wooldridge book was published way back in 2021.

Understanding a story and answering questions about it. Human level automated translation. Interpreting what is going on in a photograph. As Brynjolfsson is reading this list from the lectern, you're thinking, wait a minute, AI has solved all those problems, hasn't it? And that's when Brynjolfsson gets to his punchline. The Wooldridge book was published way back in 2021.

The pace of AI's advance has been astonishing, and some people expect it to supercharge our economy. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated economic growth over the current decade of around 1.5% a year. Erik Brynjolfsson thinks that AI could double that. He argues that many views of AI are either too fearful or too narrow.

The pace of AI's advance has been astonishing, and some people expect it to supercharge our economy. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated economic growth over the current decade of around 1.5% a year. Erik Brynjolfsson thinks that AI could double that. He argues that many views of AI are either too fearful or too narrow.

The pace of AI's advance has been astonishing, and some people expect it to supercharge our economy. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated economic growth over the current decade of around 1.5% a year. Erik Brynjolfsson thinks that AI could double that. He argues that many views of AI are either too fearful or too narrow.

So that sounds promising. But what about the machines that are just imitating humans? What about machines that are essentially high-tech forgers? Today on Freakonomics Radio, we will hear from someone who is trying to thwart these machines on behalf of artists.

So that sounds promising. But what about the machines that are just imitating humans? What about machines that are essentially high-tech forgers? Today on Freakonomics Radio, we will hear from someone who is trying to thwart these machines on behalf of artists.

So that sounds promising. But what about the machines that are just imitating humans? What about machines that are essentially high-tech forgers? Today on Freakonomics Radio, we will hear from someone who is trying to thwart these machines on behalf of artists.