Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence

被引：395

作者：

Noy, Shakked ^{[1
]}

Zhang, Whitney ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] MIT, Dept Econ, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2023年 / 381卷 / 6654期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

LABOR-MARKET; GROWTH; JOBS;

D O I：

10.1126/science.adh2586

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

We examined the productivity effects of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the assistive chatbot ChatGPT, in the context of midlevel professional writing tasks. In a preregistered online experiment, we assigned occupation-specific, incentivized writing tasks to 453 college-educated professionals and randomly exposed half of them to ChatGPT. Our results show that ChatGPT substantially raised productivity: The average time taken decreased by 40% and output quality rose by 18%. Inequality between workers decreased, and concern and excitement about AI temporarily rose. Workers exposed to ChatGPT during the experiment were 2 times as likely to report using it in their real job 2 weeks after the experiment and 1.6 times as likely 2 months after the experiment.

引用

页码：187 / 192

页数：6

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