Tyler Cowen on Why AI Hasn't Changed the World Yet
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast. I'm Jill Weisenthal.
And I'm Tracy Allaway.
You know, not a novel observation here, but I do think that if in early twenty twenty two or late twenty twenty one someone had revealed to you all of the amazing things that we could do with AI these days, I think you would have expected that either the broader economy or society would be more different than it has been. Like, by and large, you know, I think most people's jobs are done roughly the same way. Sort of society still seems to operate, although a little maybe a little bit worse every day. I don't know. But, like, I just don't think, like, it's sort of mind blowing technology, and y
Maybe I'm cynical on the subject, but I always say never underestimate the human capacity for stasis, I guess. Making things much more difficult than they actually need to be. And putting up bureaucratic barriers, regulatory barriers, and things like that. So it's not that surprising to me. But it is true. You have a lot of economists out there who think there was going to be this massive productivity boost.
Well, it's certainly tech people. Like, I don't know, like, economists, you know, they're like, oh
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