Positive users praise the Kenya experiment location and rapid research pace while negative users worry GPT-4 advice widens inequality by amplifying skill gaps for struggling entrepreneurs.
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@emollick This is of course, not a reflection on the authors, but the whole system and the institutions that comprise it need to meet the moment. If not, the medium of the published paper may become more and more irrelevant.
@emollick so the haves get richer and the struggling get an expensive consultant who just says "idk try harder" guess that tracks
@emollick the bad-at-business lose part is the real story here ai tools amplify existing skill gaps instead of closing them
@emollick kenya as the field experiment location for ai business advice research is an unusual choice that produces valuable data
@emollick Thanks @emollick for your enthusiasm for this work!
@emollick 3 years is incredibly fast for economics
This was a critical early paper on AI & work, showing that entrepreneurs getting advice from GPT-4 had higher profit margins if they were high performing, but did worse if they were already in trouble (they couldn't implement advice) Also a sign of how bad the publishing lag is https://twitter.com/orgRem/status/2075615932185997483
@emollick Oh wow, I remember this, so long ago. It feels much longer than three years.
Positive users praise the Kenya experiment location and rapid research pace while negative users worry GPT-4 advice widens inequality by amplifying skill gaps for struggling entrepreneurs.
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@emollick 3 years is incredibly fast for economics