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#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Economy

We're very far from artificial general intelligence, which is AI that can just do the full breadth of what humans can do. In all those categories, machine learning isn't really up to snuff yet. The kinds of tasks that machines tend to be good at are a lot of routine problem solving. I'm not going to see mass unemployment to get more specifically to your question. It's real going to be a great time for smart entrepreneurs and managers to do that reinvention of work.

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