Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier (Dell'Acqua et al., working paper 24-013)

Citation

Publisher

Harvard Business School / BCG

Title

Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier (Dell'Acqua et al., working paper 24-013)

Date

September 2023

Provenance

Independent research

Method

Pre-registered randomised controlled trial, 758 consultants, two task sets inside and outside the model's frontier.

What it does not show

On tasks outside the model's capability, assisted participants were 19 percentage points less likely to be correct. Consulting tasks, not marketing execution.

Full reference

Harvard Business School / BCG. Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier (Dell'Acqua et al., working paper 24-013). September 2023. https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-013_d9b45b68-9e74-42d6-a1c6-c72fb70c7282.pdf

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  A field experiment with 758 consultants found those given GPT-4 completed 12.2% more tasks, 25.1% faster, with results rated 40% higher in quality — on tasks inside the tool's capability.

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