Every day we hear claims that AI is about to transform the economy, destroying jobs & creating monopolies. But what do the professional economists think about this? (more…)

If a task takes you less than one second of thought, a machine can probably do it.

Machines seem to be getting smarter and smarter and much better at human jobs, yet true AI is utterly implausible. Why? (more…)

The year is 2030, and artificial intelligence has replaced all programmers. Let's see how this brave new world works out: (more…)

It’s no secret that machine-learning models tuned and tweaked to near-perfect performance in the lab often fail in real settings. This is typically put down to a mismatch between the data the AI was trained and tested on and the data it encounters in the ... (more…)