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Analysis: The U.S. could be on the verge of a productivity boom, a game-changer for ...

Union Leader 21 Aug 2021

Higher productivity is the economy's special sauce ... It seems like we are reentering an era of public investment," said professor Erik Brynjolfsson, director of Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab ... Brynjolfsson argues artificial intelligence and machine learning have now simmered long enough to make a dramatic difference ... It's very clear ... ....

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MIT Technology Review's virtual future of work conference, EmTech Next, begins June 8, 2021

Daily Times Chronicle 02 Jun 2021

Featured speakers include.Chip Bergh, President & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor and Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Stanford UniversityAnthony Chang, Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, Medical Director, Children's Hospital of Orange ...

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Let’s race with, not against, the machine

Mail Guardian South Africa 01 May 2021

For example, MIT researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argue that human workers are increasingly finding themselves in a “race against the machine” ... Central to Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s thesis is one particular statistic about the American labour force ... Brynjolfsson and ...

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The inspection drones are coming. Do not be alarmed

Digital Trends 03 Apr 2021

We don’t necessarily think of inspection tasks as being particularly dangerous ... Fortunately, drones are here to help ... Not so ... In Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson’s book Machine Platform Crowd, the two MIT Sloan School of Management researchers classify the work robots should ideally be doing as dull, dirty, dangerous, and dear (meaning expensive) ... .

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Businesses take a hurry-up-and-wait approach to AI

Live Mint 01 Apr 2021

The pandemic has accelerated the commercial use of artificial intelligence at every level, with companies in some industries pulling ahead of others, according to Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab ... Brynjolfsson said, speaking on Wednesday at The Wall Street Journal Pro AI Executive Forum ... Brynjolfsson said.

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5 takeaways from Stanford’s new AI index

The National 07 Mar 2021

“The biggest increases were in health care and pharma, where four times as many people increased their investments as decreased them,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.

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The Relationship Between US Government Debt and Bitcoin, Explained

Helena Bitcoin Mining 20 Jan 2021

... borrowing too much money,” Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson said.

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Is Blockchain The Answer To COVID-19 Led Misinformation and Rumor Mongering?

CryptoPotato 20 Dec 2020

The coronavirus spread through human carrier hosts ... Stanford Digital Economy Lab Director and Stanford University professor Erik Brynjolfsson seconded Collison’s viewpoint by pointing out how Twitter apparently has ‘historically’ projected false aspects of true stories ... — Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) December 15, 2020 ... Yes ... ....

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Which product categories and industries benefit most from social advertising

Phys Dot Org 11 Dec 2020

A Large-Scale Field Experiment," is authored by Shan Huang of the University of Washington, Sinan Aral of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yu Jeffrey Hu of Georgia Institute of Technology, and Erik Brynjolfsson of Stanford University ... goods," added Brynjolfsson.

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News media bargaining code: Where Google and publishers’ ideas of the audience collide

The Siasat Daily 24 Nov 2020

By Nikhila Natarajan. New York, Nov 24 ... Even if it were that simple, how much do we know about consumers’ valuation of news against the numbing backdrop of ambient TV, ambient social feeds? Turns out, it is possible to put hard numbers to questions like these, researchers Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis and Felix Eggers have shown ... Source ... .

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ActivTrak raises $50 million to measure remote workers’ productivity

Venture Beat 17 Nov 2020

A recent article by MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson estimates that 31% of workers employed in early March had switched to working at home by the first week of April ... .

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These tech jobs may disappear in the face of automation [Video]

Yahoo Daily News 22 Oct 2020

But to these capabilities, Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Digital Economy Lab at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, offered a simpler and more upbeat analogy about their implications for work ... there may be more construction workers,” Brynjolfsson told Yahoo Finance.

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Why you can’t help screwing around while working from home

Vox 22 Jul 2020

Getty Images ... Part of the July Issue of The Highlight , our home for ambitious stories that explain our world ... But since social distancing began, roughly half of workers are logging in from their scattered homes, apartments, and vacation rentals, according to research from Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of management science at MIT ... .

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The ‘Automation Revolution’ That Wasn’t?

National Review 21 Jul 2020

Advertisement. MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson, a pioneer in the economics of AI, said in 2014 that job loss due to automation would be “the biggest challenge of our society for the next decade.” Six years into the decade in question, it is time to take stock of his prediction ... Not quite, say economists Robin Hanson and Keller Scholl ... Advertisement.

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Digital Economy Lab to join Stanford HAI Institute

Stanford Daily 20 Jul 2020

The lab will be led by former MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson, who will serve as the lab’s Principal Investigator, and Christie Ko, the former associate director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.  ... Additionally, Brynjolfsson’s former lab frequently worked with Silicon Valley leaders, some of whom also served on his MIT lab’s board.