Joshua Gans

Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab

[Martin Beraja @MartinBeraja]

AI companies trained their models on web content no one clearly owned. Now courts are deciding who does.

This looks unprecedented. It isn't — it's how innovation and growth at the resource frontier have always worked.

[Amir Sariri @AmirSariri]

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[Barbara Biasi @BarbaraBiasi]

2. The report is actually NOT AI slop: it reads well and makes good points. But then does it matter whether it’s AI-written or not? The goal of a report is to make a paper better. Is that goal defeated if the report is excellent but has some AI in it? 3/

[Bo Cowgill @bocowgill]

On AI disclosures: In 1927, regulators required radio broadcasters to disclose recorded music. Failure to do so constituted "fraud upon the listening public."

As recordings became ubiquitous, gov't dropped the rule, saying the requirements "impose a needless burden on broadcasters and detract from the public's enjoyment of programs."

Broadcasters argued it made more sense to label live programs --- everyone already knew that radio recordings were recordings by default.

I think AI disclosure will follow a similar path.

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[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

@abhishekn @ccatalini The signal isn't gone. The signal was signing the letter. Isn't that all anyone cares about?

I agree, however, that making sure it is written well is important.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

I believe this was Terry Tao's point.

[Keshvibez @keshvibezTV]

SNL took a commercial for a real psoriasis medication and turned it into a story about a mysterious force that may have existed before humanity.

Ryan Gosling, Sarah Sherman and Ashley Padilla helped turn “Otezla” into one of those sketches that gets more ridiculous the longer you watch.

Here’s how it works.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

@EricLDaugh New York, New Hampshire, New England, and New Jersey need to change their names to New America too

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

TIL that my Tesla is NOT going to be able to fly via a software update.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

@danielrock @ben_moll @sebkrier @scaling01 @AnthropicAI That’s the problem. The market for extracting free cash from Anthropic employees is thin.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

The question is: can they make a non-self-driving flying Tesla?

[Adam Eisgrau @AdamEisgrau]

BREAKING: @NYTimes bestselling author, @Wired founding exec editor, futurist and now amicus for defendants Kevin Kelly has broken w @OpenAI plaintiff authors to eloquently and compellingly urge the Court that gen AI training creates broad public benefits & is classic fair use:

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

This from @wtgowers is a very nice overview of the optimal degree of worrying about AI x-risk. https://t.co/k0goSMRo0t

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

Paper here: https://t.co/eLaZ2kKOn0

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

New paper drop. Short one on how to get workers to train their replacements with Peter Landry. Explainer video: https://t.co/ADtLF7k9iB

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

I think there will be less demand for driving upside down than they think.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

@stevesi I was on a plane and Apple codes don’t work over wifi

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

They tell me that you can now have a car that flies. But where would anybody want to fly it?

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

Season 4 of The Diplomat was quite excellent.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

It seems good. Good enough that I don't want to waste a Refine expense getting its opinion.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

Refine competitor just dropped. Will check it out.

[Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢 @JeremyNguyenPhD]

AI for academic research:

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Google just launched Deep Review for reviewing draft papers.

You can pay for more. BTW, If you're revising more than 2 papers a week--how?

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