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

Erik Brynjolfsson is an economist at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

EPISODE LINKS: Erik's Twitter: https://twitter.com/erikbryn Erik's Website: https://www.brynjolfsson.com/ The Second Machine Age (book): https://amzn.to/33f1Pk2 Machine, Platform, Crowd (book): https://amzn.to/3miJZ76

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OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:23) - Exponential growth (12:51) - Elon Musk exponential thinking (15:08) - Moore's law is a series of revolutions (20:31) - GPT-3 (22:09) - Autonomous vehicles (29:11) - Electricity (33:40) - Productivity (38:47) - Why is Twitter and Facebook free? (49:03) - Dismantling the nature of truth (52:24) - Nutpicking and Cancel Culture (58:39) - How will AI change our world (1:04:40) - Existential threats (1:06:33) - AI and the nature of work (1:12:39) - Thoughts on Andrew Yang and UBI (1:18:30) - Economics of innovation (1:24:37) - Effect of COVID on the economy (1:33:50) - MIT and Stanford (1:38:23) - Book recommendations (1:41:28) - Meaning of life https://lexfridman.com/erik-brynjolfsson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=erik-brynjolfsson

Created 2y | Jun 21, 2023, 7:31:56 PM


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