If AI Is So Great, Someone Should Tell GDP

defrost · 2025-03-06T10:00:01 1741255201

Slashdot today has: Goldman Sachs: Why AI Spending Is Not Boosting GDP

  Goldman Sachs, in a research note Thursday (the note isn't publicly posted): ..etc.

I'll just leave the link to the asserted leaked internal research note as it's a blob of text, but relevant here if genuine.

doener · 2025-03-06T09:53:46 1741254826

"Back in 1987, Nobel laureate Robert Solow famously quipped, 'You can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics.'"

re-thc · 2025-03-06T11:10:01 1741259401

What's AI capex? We're lumping everything together and calling it AI.

A least a large part of it is building data centers, which they'd do anyway and can be of use even if AI doesn't pick up.