Tuesday assorted links
1. The AI market is still growing rapidly. And “In less than 200 days after launch, ChatGPT Ads has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.” 2. On Warsh.…
1. The AI market is still growing rapidly. And “In less than 200 days after launch, ChatGPT Ads has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.” 2. On Warsh.…
Here is a good Jon Hartley thread. Here is the paper, with Jolevski, Melo, and Moore. From Jon’s thread: “Generative AI adoption is widespread, but substantial aggregate labor-market disruption is…
That is the topic of my latest Free Press column. Some people are taking this in very dramatic fashion: One commentator is worried about a “full-blown AI takeover within months,” and another…
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1. Prices, prices, prices: “Again I am asking how the following two things can be true at the same time: 1) we’re all massively compute limited so inferences & GPU…
In September 2023, the Census Bureau added questions about AI to its Business Trends and Outlook Survey. Census asked hundreds of thousands of businesses whether they had used AI in…
CoverManager, an online platform that manages reservations for thousands of Spanish restaurants, reports that half the dinner bookings now are for before 9 p.m., compared with 27 percent a decade…
I am very much opposed to the view that the AIs are sentient, or might be sentient. I view that as a category error, and the chances of it being…
While Western export bans have severed Russia from much of the auto market, they have not tempered the demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks. That has given rise to a…
1. NYT covers Maria Edgeworth. 2. A calmer look at the Hugging Face incident. And from Ciaran Martin in The Economist. And Elie. And Jacob Bruggeman. 3. Chandhana visits Egypt.…