Adam Smith famously used a pin factory to illustrate the advantages of specialization, choosing this "very trifling manufacture" because the different tasks were performed under one roof: "One man ...

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In her column “How to predict the effect of AI on growth” (Opinion, May 10) Soumaya Keynes asks whether artificial intelligence will be the “avocado slicer . . . or the microwave”. She suggests it ...