Can AI Master Econometrics? Evidence from Econometrics AI Agent on Expert-Level Tasks
AI 能掌握计量经济学吗?专家级任务上的智能体证据
Can AI effectively perform complex econometric analysis traditionally requiring human expertise? This paper evaluates AI agents' capability to master econometrics, focusing on empirical analysis performance. We develop ``MetricsAI'', an Econometrics AI Agent built on the open-source MetaGPT framework. This agent exhibits outstanding performance in: (1) planning econometric tasks strategically, (2) generating and executing code, (3) employing error-based reflection for…