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Abhishek Nagaraj

@abhishekn
Associate Prof @berkeleyhaas, NBER RA. Dad to 2 girls. he/him/his. Interested in using tech, AI and data to drive progress. Using ideas as my maps.
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    Abhishek Nagaraj
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    Aug 26
    🚨🚨 NEW RESEARCH ALERT! 🚨🚨 Excited to release new WP with lab colleagues @kennywongchamch @krisgulati and #MinMinFong. This paper asks a simple question: how do we rank models on real work tasks when they are coaching rather than when they're playing? Answer: the best
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    If you think Whole Foods is impressive wait till you walk into a @HomeDepot!
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    Emma Camp
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    If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store. My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx
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    Abhishek Nagaraj
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    Aug 28
    Also applies to grad student and assistant profs - without any of the potential $ payout.
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    Vijay Shekhar Sharma
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    Aug 28
    Lifestyle of an entrepreneur 🤩
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    Abhishek Nagaraj
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    Aug 28
    “Like other companies @huggingface doesn’t want to be useful” I’m going to try the next time I write a pitch! Legendary.
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    Sheel Mohnot
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    Aug 28
    Hugging Face, acquired for $13B, started out as a chatbot for bored teenagers really hard to tell what something is going to be at seed.
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    Abhishek Nagaraj
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    Aug 28
    Economists can be accused of many things, but to say that they don’t think AI is general purpose technology seems extreme. I mean @danielrock and company literally called it that in 2023! arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130 And economists afaik I know invented the term!
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    David Shapiro (L/0)
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    Aug 27
    This is why economists were dead wrong about AI. Since they aren't technologists, they didn't accurately price generative AI. They looked at it and saw a chatbot. They had no idea how this technology can scale. There are still economists who don't believe that generative AI
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