Acemoglu Questions AI Revolution in Many Areas
MIT economist and Nobel laureate posted views on X about AI limits.
Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at MIT and Nobel laureate in economics, posted on X that in many areas where technooptimists expect AI to revolutionize everything, the impact may be much less positive. He wrote that current approaches do not help reach the bottom of mechanisms of human cognition, discovery, and innovation. Acemoglu added that many of those areas need more and higher quality data. The visible portion of the post ends mid-sentence.
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Acemoglu Questions AI Revolution in Many Areas
MIT economist and Nobel laureate posted views on X about AI limits.
Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at MIT and Nobel laureate in economics, posted on X that in many areas where technooptimists expect AI to revolutionize everything, the impact may be much less positive. He wrote that current approaches do not help reach the bottom of mechanisms of human cognition, discovery, and innovation. Acemoglu added that many of those areas need more and higher quality data. The visible portion of the post ends mid-sentence.
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Daron Acemoglu@DAcemogluMITIn fact, in many areas where technooptimists argue that AI is going to revolutionize everything, the impact may be much less positive because current approaches are not helping us get to the bottom of mechanisms of human cognition, discovery, and innovation. In many of them, we…
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