David Nguyen
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David Nguyen
@nguyendavid.bsky.social
Research Scientist // Stanford Digital Economy Lab // Institute for Human-Centered AI // Stanford University
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Hi Everyone!

We're hosting our Wharton AI and the Future of Work Conference on 5/21-22. Last year was a great event with some of the top papers on AI and work.

Paper submission deadline is 3/3. Come join us! Submit papers here: forms.gle/ozJ5xEaktXDE...
forms.gle
January 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Alongside publishing new ESCoE work on Inclusive Income with Cliodhna Taylor this week, Richard Heys has also recently published a paper on composite indices.➡️ tinyurl.com/mfm7u59c

Read more on public service productivity measurement. ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdyvprke
December 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Median homes in San Jose and San Francisco now worth more than $1 million. Highest in the country. If you live here that doesn’t surprise you. Very limited supply and immense tech wealth.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/r...
November 25, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Here's a our new paper "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment"

We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising.

We find no significant differences in valuations between users who see ads vs. those who don't.

www.nber.org/papers/w32846
The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment
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November 19, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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Crazy interesting paper in many ways:
1) Voice-enabled GPT-4o conducted 2 hour
interviews of 1,052 people
2) GPT-4o agents were given the transcripts & prompted to simulate the people
3) The agents were given surveys & tasks. They achieved 85% accuracy in simulating interviewees real answers!
November 19, 2024 at 12:18 AM
This feels like the "old" Twitter 🤗
November 18, 2024 at 9:39 PM
New paper by Anton Korinek and Jai Vipra examining the market structure and competition dynamics of LLMs, warning how economies of scale and scope could vastly increase concentration in the future.

www.nber.org/papers/w33139
Concentrating Intelligence: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
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November 18, 2024 at 5:48 AM
The Digital Economy Lab has 2 exciting seminars this week. Monday (11/18) Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA) "The Impact of Generative AI on Firm Values"
Thursday (11/21) David Deming (Harvard) "The (Possible) Labor Market Impacts of AI"
Register here for in-person or online digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/events/
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November 18, 2024 at 2:45 AM