Goldman economist offers a reality check on AI adoption: it took 15 years for computers to really show up in the data
Are you feeling a little underwhelmed by AI’s transformation of the economy? The so-called “fifth industrial revolution” is supposed to wipe out half or even all of white-collar work and yet adoption is kind of begrudging, even optional for many workers.
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Are you feeling a little underwhelmed by AI’s transformation of the economy? The so-called “fifth industrial revolution” is supposed to wipe out half or even all of white-collar work and yet adoption is kind of begrudging, even optional for many workers. For those who have started using it, it kind of feels like homework a lot of the time—it writes your emails for you, but it’s still wrong a lot of the time. Three and four decades ago, the computer revolution was similarly hyped, and yet for a lot of the time, it looked more like Pets.com than what turned into the iPhone.
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- Are you feeling a little underwhelmed by AI’s transformation of the economy? The so-called “fifth industrial revolution” is supposed to wipe out half or even all of white-collar work and yet adoption is kind of begrudging, even optional for many workers.
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Goldman economist offers a reality check on AI adoption: it took 15 years for computers to really show up in the data
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