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An MIT Student Awed Top Economists with His AI Study–Then It All Fell Apart
- bookofjoe 11mo agono paywall: https://www.wsj.com/economy/aidan-toner-rodgers-mit-ai-research-78753243?st=zBtyai&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/economy/aidan-toner-rodgers-mit-ai-resea...
- gus_massa 11mo ago> The last version was posted on arXiv, a global repository for unpublished science research, in December. It looks like it was never published. HN discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115310 (180 points | Nov 12 2024 | 47 comments) Interesting comment by lysecret > Interesting, a large US company with over 1000 materials scientists (there can only be a handful of those) introduced a cutting-edge AI tool and decided to make a study out of it / randomize it and gave all the credentials to some econ PHD student. Would love to know more about how this came to be. Also, why his PHD supervisor didn't get a co-author, never seen that. I'm always slightly suspicious of these very strong results without any public data / way to reproduce it. We essentially have to believe 1 guys word.