Where's the productivity, Artie?

Artie, as in Artificial intelligence.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

Are we getting more done using all this new AI?

Corporate leaders say, not especially.

That's according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Where's the productivity jump?

Daniel Ackerman reports.

Researchers asked executives at nearly 6,000 companies how generative AI has affected their productivity

and employment. And 80% of the time? The answer was that neither of those things seems to have

changed much yet. Gregory Thwaites is an economist at the University of Nottingham, who co-authored the study.

But the answer is very much yet because they're expecting a bigger effect over the next three years

and over the past three years.

That expectation could be because the technology is improving so quickly, something

Lindsay Raymond, an economist at MIT, says she sees firsthand.

So I write a lot of code, do a lot of analysis, and just the coding aid and capability,

there was like this dramatic shift kind of over the holidays.

The holidays as in December, less than two months ago.

At least I feel like I'm getting more productive.

And even if the technology fails to live up to the hype more broadly,

Raymond says the mere possibility could affect company staffing decisions.

They are probably anticipating.

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