Erik Brynjolfsson

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Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines

Apr 23, 2013

As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it's simply the growing pains of a radically reorganized economy. A riveting case for why big innovations are ahead of us ... if we think of computers as our teammates. Be sure to watch the opposing viewpoint from Robert Gordon.

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Erik Brynjolfsson: economics of AI, social networks, and technology

Nov 25, 2020

Erik Brynjolfsson is an economist at Stanford.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
2:56 - Exponential growth
7:24 - Elon Musk exponential thinking
9:41 - Moore's law is a series of revolutions
15:03 - GPT-3
16:42 - Autonomous vehicles
23:43 - Electricity
28:12 - Productivity
33:19 - Why is Twitter and Facebook free?
43:36 - Dismantling the nature of truth
46:56 - Nutpicking and Cancel Culture
53:11 - How will AI change our world
59:12 - Existential threats
1:01:05 - AI and the nature of work
1:07:11 - Thoughts on Andrew Yang and UBI
1:13:03 - Economics of innovation
1:19:09 - Effect of COVID on the economy
1:28:22 - MIT and Stanford
1:32:56 - Book recommendations
1:36:01 - Meaning of life