A 15-year-old asked the question — receiving an answer from an associate professor of psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. They write (on The Conversation) that “As a brain scientist who studies perception, I fully expect mind uploading to one day be a reality. But as of today, we’re nowhere Read more…
This month, millions of young people will graduate from college, and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial intelligence. That is the troubling conclusion of my conversations over Read more…
A 21-year-old’s startup got a $500,000 investment from Y Combinator — after building their web site and prototype mostly with “vibe coding”. “It really caught on, this idea that people are no longer checking line by line the code that AI is producing, but just kind of telling it what Read more…
How does it feel to be replaced by a bot? Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales “One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, ‘Just put it in ChatGPT….’ [My manager] stressed that my job was safe. Six weeks later, I was called to a meeting with HR. They told Read more…
Thursday Anthropic’s CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN’s senior business writer dismisses that as “all part of the AI hype machine,” pointing out that Amodei “didn’t cite any Read more…
Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company’s ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot available to all residents free of charge, though a final deal has not been reached. An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan Read more…
AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years — and overall unemployment potentially spiking between 10 and 20% during that period. The prediction comes as new data from venture capital firm SignalFire shows Big Tech companies have already reduced their hiring of new graduates Read more…