Joshua Gans

2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Joshua Gans

Researchers at Apple released a new paper that looked at the performance of “reasoning” Generative AI models. These models were released to the world just six months ago with Open AI’s o1-pro and were such an advance that when they were developed internally within Open AI, it led to the major leadership drama there in late 2023. And they are a major advance. I can most definitely say that they have transformed my work life (as I wrote about at the time).

1 month ago | nber.org | Joshua Gans

The author thanks Opher Baron for comments and GPT-o3 and Claude Sonnet 3.7 for helpful research assistance. All errors are my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Related

1 month ago | nber.org | Joshua Gans

Thanks to Christoph Carnehl and Johannes Schneider for helpful discussions and Claude Sonnet 3.7 for valuable research assistance. Responsibility for all errors remains my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Related

1 month ago | joshuagans.substack.com | Joshua Gans

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1 month ago | joshuagans.substack.com | Joshua Gans

About a month ago, a piece by Scott Latham entitled “Are you ready for the AI university?” was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s paywalled, but don’t worry, you don’t need to read it as I’ll summarise it here: imagine you work in a university (as faculty or staff) and that you can imagine a super-being who can do everything you dislike doing (no matter how small) and do it better and cheaper than you do. Imagine that being exists. Who will pay you to do what stuff?