How this entry uses the Tyler test The Tyler test appears in the channel's material as a playful experiment: a clone of economist Tyler Cowen was asked the same questions he was, to explore how closely AI can replicate his responses [^7446bf59-fb6e-5e81-b79b-e25a61ea39de@handout]. In the conversation with Cowen about how ChatGPT is changing work, this clone-based quiz becomes a concrete way to understand the limits of AI imitation — not a formal benchmark, but a live test of whether a model can sound like a specific thinker [^7446bf59-fb6e-5e81-b79b-e25a61ea39de@handout].