Topics Discussed: Exponential growth, Elon Musk exponential thinking, Moore’s law is a series of revolutions, GPT-3, Autonomous vehicles, Electricity, Productivity, Why is Twitter and Facebook free?, Dismantling the nature of truth, Nutpicking and Cancel Culture, How will AI change our world, Existential threats, AI and the nature of work, Thoughts on Andrew Yang and UBI, Economics of innovation, Effect of COVID on the economy, MIT and Stanford, Book recommendations, Meaning of life.
Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR, the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a best-selling author of several books. He is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information and the digital economy more generally.
