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Sep 18, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Generative AI as a Potential New Factor of Production (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    Deus ex machina (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    Using Large Language Models to Streamline and Enhance R&D Surveys (opens the original)

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    AbstractLarge language models (LLMs) can support official statistics most effectively when they are embedded in concrete production tasks rather than treated as autonomous systems. This paper discusses three practical use cases from the production of R&D statistics at Statistics Iceland. First, ChatGPT and DeepSeek were used to help design a Microsoft SQL Server pipeline that transforms raw R&D survey outputs into a full SDMX template for Eurostat. The resulting architecture used unpivoted surve

  4. Issue · Jul 7, 2026

    Digital sovereignty is not just French eccentricity (opens the original)

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