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adverbly 3 hours ago

This is very cool but it's not quite what I expected out of economic primitives.

I expected to see measures of the economic productivity generated as a result of artificial intelligence use.

Instead, what I'm seeing is measures of artificial intelligence use.

I don't really see how this is measuring the most important economic primitives. Nothing related to productivity at all actually. Everything about how and where and who... This is just demographics and usage statistics...

p1necone 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I expected to see measures of the economic productivity generated as a result of artificial intelligence use.

>Instead, what I'm seeing is measures of artificial intelligence use.

Fun fact: this is also how most large companies are measuring their productivity increases from AI usage ;), alongside asking employees to tell them how much faster AI is making them while simultaneously telling them they're expected to go faster with AI.

hazyc 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

productivity is such a nebulous concept in knowledge work - an amalgamation of mostly-qualitative measures that get baked into quantitative measures that are mostly just bad data

johnrob 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Until AI is used to generate new revenue streams (i.e. acquire new customers), I don’t think the economic impact is going to impress. My two cents.

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kurttheviking 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

agree, was similarly hoping for something akin to a total factor productivity argument