New paper on data as a driver of automation and growth: nber.org/papers/w35320 <br ... (opens in new tab)

New paper on data as a driver of automation and growth: One of my favorite lines from the Nicomachean Ethics goes ‘for the things we need to learn before we do them, we learn by doing them’. The world is complex and messy… ‘men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre’. How did AI systems become taxi drivers? How will they become office workers? One view is that they’ll gain those skills by training on high quality data. But where will that data come from? What kinds of...