AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen predicts AI integration will drive 2.5% annual GDP growth"
Labor will shift toward running experiments and gathering data.
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Self recommending.
Second for second, @tylercowen packs more substance into a talk than anyone I'm aware of. This is a clear, non-hysterical, and somewhat soothing discussion of our AI future.
Positive users praise Tyler Cowen's clear talk on AI's economic future and education for its substantive insights, while negative users criticize him as a dilettante lacking deep technological understanding.
I can listen to @tylercowen talk all day
Second for second, @tylercowen packs more substance into a talk than anyone I'm aware of. This is a clear, non-hysterical, and somewhat soothing discussion of our AI future.
Tyler Cowen on how AI will change our lives. Excellent.
@lokendrachauhan @tylercowen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJlg6o0A_Js
@noam_dworman @tylercowen One of my favorite TC essays. F——-g legend!
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2009/05/01/anti-capitalist-rerun/
@PradyuPrasad @tylercowen I hear you, but tbc he’s talking about higher ed, not elementary school. I think that higher ed should look much closer to workforce training, and in the workforce people will be using AI a lot.
@AlecStapp @IFP @tylercowen FWIW, I don’t think there’s an obviously correct answer here.
Knowing how to use AI is already an important skill and will become more important - schools should teach it.
But students also need to know things and learn how to think. Bad AI use harms those goals.
@AlecStapp @tylercowen There are calculator like skills at every level. And yes university classes should prescribe the skills they want and not mindlessly ban AI. But even if AI can for example debug code, you should be able to do it yourself too!
@noam_dworman @tylercowen Cowen is a dilettante with a million interests but without a deep understanding of any of them.
Deeply agree with Tyler. When a generation is “phoning it in” — it’s a misnomer to think the issue is cheating. The deeper issue is that they’re dispirited and apathetic about their thoughts mattering, and they see things as outputs instead of a process of relating, growing through confusions
@noam_dworman @tylercowen Cowen: 1. AI will help us win the competition with China. 2. Because human bottlenecks, AI will boost the U.S. GDP growth by 0.5% instead of 10-20%.
If he knows anything about China, it should be China's ability to remove bottlenecks through decrees.
1 & 2 can't be both true.
@AlecStapp @lukeburgis @tylercowen Much of a practical high schooler’s concerns, for example, is oriented towards college admission outcomes and tailoring to that institutional competition versus what they actually care about
@PradyuPrasad @AlecStapp @tylercowen I think @__venki__ has updated me a lot on how powerful having a high degree of instinctive numeracy is, across a wide variety of domains.
@noam_dworman @NellieBowles @tylercowen Try his podcast. He’s the best interviewer I’ve ever heard and I’m a journalist who notices such things. Wish I had his interviewing skills.
@noam_dworman @tylercowen "Don't blame the cheaters, blame the system for teaching the wrong things."
That's a sticking point for me. I can't agree. Because the system is teaching us to write and to think. That's not ground we can give up simply because it's redundant now, because we're not #1 there.
@AlecStapp @IFP @tylercowen We’re well on our way to becoming cybernetic beings.
Becoming the right kind of cyborg is important and it’s not obvious how we get there.
@LastWinterLion @noam_dworman @tylercowen He’s a macroeconomist. He co-wrote a fairly widely used college textbook on Macro. He writes one of the world’s most influential blogs, which he has updated non stop for like 20 years. He is a master of clear communication. What do you want?
@jonesdel @NellieBowles @tylercowen I believe sprouts naturally from a curious mind.
@PradyuPrasad @AlecStapp @tylercowen Nobody puts intrinsic value on being able to add numbers up. But it’s very valuable for building understanding of what the calculator is doing, and for learning higher-order skills
@s8mb I’m surprised at how non-AGI pilled Tyler seems. You don’t think he’s underselling it?
@PradyuPrasad @AlecStapp @tylercowen 💯 Part of the (real) power in using AI tools is the manual capacity to check its work and sense when you need to steer / correct it towards productive output
Very much so for legal reasoning and analysis IME. Need to be able to do the job independently to maximize LLMs ime
