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What can machine learning do? Workforce implications
What can machine learning do? Workforce implications
By Erik Brynjolfsson
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🌟 I am thrilled and honored to announce that I have been recognized among the Top 101 Global Twitter Influencers to Follow for 2024 by Engati!…
🌟 I am thrilled and honored to announce that I have been recognized among the Top 101 Global Twitter Influencers to Follow for 2024 by Engati!…
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I read that JPMorgan Chase is ensuring all new hires receive AI training — promising that such a move would help staff to “eliminate repetitive ‘no…
I read that JPMorgan Chase is ensuring all new hires receive AI training — promising that such a move would help staff to “eliminate repetitive ‘no…
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I had a lot of fun thinking about how we might be able to jointly solve market failures for innovation + redistributive concerns over AI with Emma…
I had a lot of fun thinking about how we might be able to jointly solve market failures for innovation + redistributive concerns over AI with Emma…
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Norton
he Second Machine Age is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post Bestseller.
In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered…he Second Machine Age is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post Bestseller.
In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.
In The Second Machine Age, we make the case that we should be optimistic about the future because technological progress, 'the only free lunch that economists believe in,' is accelerating quickly past our intuitions and expectations. But we should also be mindful of our values and our choices: as technology races ahead, it may leave a lot of people, organizations and institutions behind.
This is the book that explains the new age we're quickly heading into and shows why we should be optimistic about it, yet also discusses the challenges it will bring.Other authorsSee publication -
Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
Digital Frontier Press
We wrote this book because we believe that digital technologies are one of the most important driving forces in the economy today. They’re transforming the world of work and are key drivers of productivity and growth. Yet their impact on employment is not well understood, and definitely not fully appreciated. While digital progress grows the overall economic pie, it can do so while leaving some people, or even a lot of them, worse off.
Our technologies are racing ahead but many of our…We wrote this book because we believe that digital technologies are one of the most important driving forces in the economy today. They’re transforming the world of work and are key drivers of productivity and growth. Yet their impact on employment is not well understood, and definitely not fully appreciated. While digital progress grows the overall economic pie, it can do so while leaving some people, or even a lot of them, worse off.
Our technologies are racing ahead but many of our skills and organizations are lagging behind. So it’s urgent that we understand these phenomena, discuss their implications, and come up with strategies that allow human workers to race ahead with machines instead of racing against them.Other authorsSee publication -
Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy
MIT Press
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the companies with the highest level of returns to their technology investment are doing more than just buying technology; they are inventing new forms of organizational capital to become digital…
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the companies with the highest level of returns to their technology investment are doing more than just buying technology; they are inventing new forms of organizational capital to become digital organizations. These innovations include a cluster of organizational and business-process changes, including broader sharing of information, decentralized decision-making, linking pay and promotions to performance, pruning of non-core products and processes, and greater investments in training and education.
Innovation continues through booms and busts. This book provides an essential guide for policy makers and economists who need to understand how information technology is transforming the economy and how it will create value in the coming decade.Other authorsSee publication
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If you’re a marketing and communications wizard, please come join us at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab . (If you’re not, please share with your…
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It was a pleasure to join the Senior Advisor to Governor Newsom and Director of CAGoBiz Dee Dee Myers, and incoming UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons…
It was a pleasure to join the Senior Advisor to Governor Newsom and Director of CAGoBiz Dee Dee Myers, and incoming UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons…
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I we'll see a lot more careful assessments of GenAI implementations. Where else are they creating big improvments in productivity, customer…
I we'll see a lot more careful assessments of GenAI implementations. Where else are they creating big improvments in productivity, customer…
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Here's a good analysis by Avinash Misra of the kinds of retraining needed as AI becomes more ubiquitous. As noted in the Financial Times article…
Here's a good analysis by Avinash Misra of the kinds of retraining needed as AI becomes more ubiquitous. As noted in the Financial Times article…
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I was interviewed for this story a few weeks ago. The headline is not what I would have written, but the content about warehouse robots, and how…
I was interviewed for this story a few weeks ago. The headline is not what I would have written, but the content about warehouse robots, and how…
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I'd love to see AI help facilitate conversations among not just board members, but other collaborators, too -- scientists, engineers, economists…
I'd love to see AI help facilitate conversations among not just board members, but other collaborators, too -- scientists, engineers, economists…
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How to use AI to augment Board room conversations? Erik Brynjolfsson suggesting real-time AI monitoring of board meetings…and then asking the tool…
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