Interesting because I think Adam Smith is a good model for how AI works. Smith studied lists of prices and inventories and found relations between supply and demand. AI does the same things with less structured data (and much faster). What AI can not do is produce new concepts, like Einstein did in his Special Theory of Relativity. (There were no references to prior work in that paper.)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/12/economy/ai-impact-on-economists-jobs/index.html
How genAI is revolutionizing the field of economics
Anton Korinek, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, tells the students he advises nowadays that they should really begin to master a flourishing technology expected to transform the field of economics. That technology is generative artificial intelligence, or “genAI” for short.
… Korinek expects it to “revolutionize research,” according to a paper he wrote that was accepted for publication by the Journal of Economic Literature.
“It’s a powerful technology and if you use it, you can solve economic problems that we face as a society, better and more productively. That’s what research is all about,” Korinek told CNN in an interview.
It seems that everyone – even kids – have access to the war fighting tools Hamas found so useful.
We just saw the future of war
When Hamas militants shocked the world last weekend by launching the biggest and most violent attack on Israel in decades, it was almost equally shocking how they did it.
Hamas blasted through a super-high-tech, $1 billion security system on the Gaza border using little more than bulldozers, paragliders and a 2G cellular network, a remarkable upending of the two sides’ tech dynamic — as POLITICO’s Daniella Cheslow outlined in striking detail this morning.
… “Technology is changing warfare, but it isn’t necessarily changing it in the ways that most techno-optimists think it will,” Cronin said. “Because technologies are so accessible, you’ve got… groups like Hamas able to use everything from drones, to social media, to low-tech clusters of technology both high and low that can have an enormous impact.”
For Hamas, that took the form of staying off smartphones and preparing its propaganda in advance, as well as overwhelming the Israeli border so rapidly that its drone surveillance system failed. Cronin characterizes three key areas where lower-tech actors can, and do, overwhelm their counterparts: The democratization of media technology; the increase of physical reach allowed by cheap drones and rocketry; and systems integration, or the ability to communicate effectively within the group.
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