Tyler Cowen
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It's smarter than me, and it knows more than I do. So I have a near infinite demand to use it. I just keep on asking it questions all day long. I hardly use Google anymore, except like to buy tickets. And just yesterday, I started using Deep Research.
Deep research can write, say, a 10-page paper for you in five or six minutes, where the quality of the paper is what a PhD-level assistant would give you if that person had a week to work on it. And you get this in five or six minutes. I just started this yesterday. That is amazing. Most people don't know this. It's incredible. It's going to change our whole world.
Deep research can write, say, a 10-page paper for you in five or six minutes, where the quality of the paper is what a PhD-level assistant would give you if that person had a week to work on it. And you get this in five or six minutes. I just started this yesterday. That is amazing. Most people don't know this. It's incredible. It's going to change our whole world.
Deep research can write, say, a 10-page paper for you in five or six minutes, where the quality of the paper is what a PhD-level assistant would give you if that person had a week to work on it. And you get this in five or six minutes. I just started this yesterday. That is amazing. Most people don't know this. It's incredible. It's going to change our whole world.
We'll do it bit by bit, piece by piece. I think we need to radically reorganize higher education and what a PhD is and means. I don't think it will be done in top-down, centralized fashion. It should not be. We need a higher education system with a lot more diversity, true experimentation. You can fail. You can go out of business. and set that process in motion.
We'll do it bit by bit, piece by piece. I think we need to radically reorganize higher education and what a PhD is and means. I don't think it will be done in top-down, centralized fashion. It should not be. We need a higher education system with a lot more diversity, true experimentation. You can fail. You can go out of business. and set that process in motion.
We'll do it bit by bit, piece by piece. I think we need to radically reorganize higher education and what a PhD is and means. I don't think it will be done in top-down, centralized fashion. It should not be. We need a higher education system with a lot more diversity, true experimentation. You can fail. You can go out of business. and set that process in motion.
And I'm confident the United States can do this, but right now it's a kludged cartel, and it operates terribly, and it's super conservative, and we're hardly making progress on this at all. I think it's one of the great national scandals.
And I'm confident the United States can do this, but right now it's a kludged cartel, and it operates terribly, and it's super conservative, and we're hardly making progress on this at all. I think it's one of the great national scandals.
And I'm confident the United States can do this, but right now it's a kludged cartel, and it operates terribly, and it's super conservative, and we're hardly making progress on this at all. I think it's one of the great national scandals.
I don't think we know yet. A lot of people who think they're so smart and know so much and write so well, their skills are not so unique anymore. I do think they will have future roles in guiding the AIs, verifying the outputs, judging what is relevant, deciding which questions to ask. But I think, again, it will be a radically different setup once we allow competition to operate.
I don't think we know yet. A lot of people who think they're so smart and know so much and write so well, their skills are not so unique anymore. I do think they will have future roles in guiding the AIs, verifying the outputs, judging what is relevant, deciding which questions to ask. But I think, again, it will be a radically different setup once we allow competition to operate.
I don't think we know yet. A lot of people who think they're so smart and know so much and write so well, their skills are not so unique anymore. I do think they will have future roles in guiding the AIs, verifying the outputs, judging what is relevant, deciding which questions to ask. But I think, again, it will be a radically different setup once we allow competition to operate.
With big losers, those big losers are people with very influential voices. They will hate it. They will go down screaming. Part of me may enjoy that a bit. I just think we need to start experimenting and get the competitive process going. I don't think you can predict the exact outcomes. What will you enjoy the most?
With big losers, those big losers are people with very influential voices. They will hate it. They will go down screaming. Part of me may enjoy that a bit. I just think we need to start experimenting and get the competitive process going. I don't think you can predict the exact outcomes. What will you enjoy the most?
With big losers, those big losers are people with very influential voices. They will hate it. They will go down screaming. Part of me may enjoy that a bit. I just think we need to start experimenting and get the competitive process going. I don't think you can predict the exact outcomes. What will you enjoy the most?
Just waking up every morning and knowing that whatever question I have, I now have a smarter entity to ask than I ever had before in my entire life. That thrills me every day.
Just waking up every morning and knowing that whatever question I have, I now have a smarter entity to ask than I ever had before in my entire life. That thrills me every day.
Just waking up every morning and knowing that whatever question I have, I now have a smarter entity to ask than I ever had before in my entire life. That thrills me every day.
Oh, Gary Marcus. I mean, seeing Gary Marcus eat crow, that's like the single thing that will give me the greatest pleasure. Because he's been saying for so many years, none of this stuff works. He's so obviously wrong. He doubles down in such a convoluted way each time. It's a standing joke with many of the people I know. And just to see the final comeuppance for Gary Marcus, that will be amazing.