If you want some background info, read this instead of the wsj article: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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If literally anyone bothered to check “2nd year Ph.D. student” would’ve ended it, shame it had to go so far in the process
"The paper was championed by MIT economists Daron Acemoglu, who won the 2024 economics Nobel, and David Autor. The two said they were approached in January by a computer scientist with experience in materials science who questioned how the technology worked, and how a lab that he wasn’t aware of had experienced gains in innovation."
It sounds like this hypothetical materials science lab maybe did not actually exist. Actual materials scientist reached out and went "Hey, I never heard of that lab, who are they and how did they use AI?" Oh... THAT lab? Yeah, it's in Canada, you don't know it...
While I appreciate some of the clarification in the actual linked article, I don't like that it makes claims that Google has done this but doesn't post a link about the specifics. When did Google make such claims about their AI and what were the claims?