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Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages

When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may seem like a tsunami of technology is going to wipe out workers broadly, in the name of greater efficiency. But a study co-authored by an MIT economist shows markedly different dynamics in the U.S. since 1980. Rather than implement automation in pursuit of maximal […]

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An Alternate Formulation for Causal Inference Research

Causal inference is an important and active area of artificial intelligence research today. Indeed, no less than Turing award winner Yoshio Bengio lists causal reasoning as a top priority, as does his co-Turing award winner Yann LeCun, who writes that “Lots of people in ML/DL know that causal inference is an important way to improve

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The #COVID19 Driver’s Seat

I caught COVID19 in March, a few weeks after breaking my arm badly enough to need surgery.  I made it through, but along the way, and with the perspective afforded by a lot of time on the couch and away from the day-to-day business of Quantellia, I became galvanized to do something about other COVID

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