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Human in the Loop and the Missing Productivity Growth

It is now regularly observed that incredibly strong and rapidly improving AI capabilities do not seem to contribute to any measurable growth in productivity across the economy.

It is now regularly observed that incredibly strong and rapidly improving AI capabilities do not seem to contribute to any measurable growth in productivity across the economy. That may be a necessity - currently available AI is not quite good enough to self-supervise in high stakes situations and lacks the rich context human operators have. Over the coming months and years AI will gain the context necessary for completing many tasks efficiently, as well as the techniques for operating with much greater autonomy safely.

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