Well after a week in Barcelona, it is time to return to Texas. What a lovely time I had, though. I taught diff-in-diff and synthetic control at the University of Barcelona and it was such a joy. I hope to come back here soon and often. In the meantime, I thought I’d share with you some new papers and articles I’ve been reading about ChatGPT, as I think these are very exciting.
This song is totally in your Q Zone.
Ethan is the go to guy I read whose writings about ChatGPT and generative AI is consistently fantastic, and this new post did not disappoint. Ethan and coauthors ran a randomized controlled trial in a Boston consulting firm in which randomized consultants were given the “vanilla” version of ChatGPT-4 and the controls were not. They were given a fictional shoe client which was meant to approximate a “normal” type of work. You can read the excellent substack entry here, and the working paper here at ssrn.
The study is nuanced, as Ethan says, and I encourage you to study …
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