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83. “There's So Many Problems — Which Ones Can I Make a Difference On?”

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Machine Learning and Artifici Intelligence

Migroso was where you first got introduced and interested in these ideas, which were really quite foreign to economists at the time. There were no economists, basically, at microsof, but there were hundreds or thousands of people working on machine learning for the search engine. It took pioneers like you to take those first steps to show the rest of us just how rich this universe was that we hadn't tapped into. But ultimately, the challenge you face is that, as an academic, you have to get up close with these companies to really understand them.

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