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Returns to research and development in software exceed one.

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Even still, across these (limited) case studies it appears very plausible that the returns to R&D in software are indeed greater than one.

Do the returns to software R&D point towards a singularity?blog postextraction 0.80

Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil, Anson Ho · Epoch AI · original

After Bayesian single-data-point estimates for computer vision, SAT solvers, linear programming and reinforcement learning, all with medians above one but not statistically significant.

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