Power and Prediction: Quotes
The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Book by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
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"Power and Prediction" argues that the true potential of AI lies not in automating individual tasks, but in enabling the redesign of entire systems and decision-making processes, which will lead to significant shifts in economic and political power as AI evolves from a tool for prediction into a catalyst for transformation.
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"AIs Are Idiot Savants, Not General Intelligence"
"Predicting on the support of your data is not as simple as collecting data from a wider variety of settings to ensure you aren't extrapolating too much or avoiding predicting too far into the future. Sometimes the data you need doesn't exist. This underlies the refrain repeated in every statistics course worldwide: correlation is not necessarily causation."
Section: 1, Chapter: 3
SOPs Are The Manifestation Of Rules And The Need To Follow Them
"Like SOPs, checklists are the manifestation of rules and the need to follow them. They are there to ensure reliability and reduce error. The alternative is that people make decisions based on their own observations. While switching from a rule to a decision may improve the quality of that particular action, it may also create problems and uncertainty for other people."
Section: 2, Chapter: 6
"Decoupling Creates A New Opportunity For AI Adoption"
"Once the AI provides the prediction, then the people with the best judgment can shine... Once the AI provides the prediction, new systems can arise to take advantage of better, faster, and cheaper predictions and more appropriate judgment. In Prediction Machines, we highlighted an opportunity for Amazon to change its business model so that it ships items to your door before you even order. That business model now exists. Stitch Fix does it for clothes."
Section: 5, Chapter: 13
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