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Google Calls in Larry and Sergey for Backup

1-21-2023

January 21, 2023

📰 Today's Top Stories

  • 🚨 Google Calls in Larry and Sergey

  • 💼 ChatGPT is coming for White Collar Work

  • 💸 AI at Davos

(8 min read) (Source: New York Times)

According to a recent report by The New York Times, Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have re-engaged with the company following the release of a rival chatbot, ChatGPT, by OpenAI. The chatbot, which is able to explain complex concepts and generate ideas, has been seen as a potential threat to Google's search business.

As a result, Google's current CEO, Sundar Pichai, called for a "code red" and plans to unveil over 20 new products and demonstrate a version of its search engine with chatbot features this year. The re-engagement of the founders, who had not been actively involved with the company since 2019, emphasizes the urgency felt among many Google executives about artificial intelligence and the potential impact of ChatGPT.

(3 min read) (Source: Futurism)

CNET and its sister site Bankrate were caught red-handed using AI to generate financial explainers, but despite the shoddy quality of the articles and the lack of formal announcement causing outrage, the company plans to start the program back up once the negative press dies down. CNET's executive vice president of content reassured employees that "this will pass" and plans to conduct an audit of the AI's work and figure out new ways for editors to catch errors. However, employees are concerned that the company is more concerned with avoiding negative press than the quality of its work and fear that the AI will replace them.

The story has made serious rounds in the media, with outlets such as The Washington Post calling it a "journalistic disaster" but Red Ventures leadership says not to worry, as the media will stop paying attention soon enough and they can start the program back up again, with a "don't mind us, just automating the workforce" attitude.

(8 min read) (Source: The Guardian)

AI is making a big splash at the World Economic Forum this year. Policy Makers gathered in Davos to discuss the rapid advancements in AI and shared concerns about the impact on the job market and the potential for spreading misinformation. Automation Anywhere's CEO Mihir Shukla highlighted how AI can process a mortgage application in a fraction of the time it used to take, while IBM's CEO Arvind Krishna predicted job cuts in white-collar positions. Stanford University's digital economy professor, Erik Brynjolfsson, also warned about the potential for bot-generated disinformation flooding the internet, and the need for a mechanism to separate fact from fiction.

(10 min read) (Source: The Atlantic)

ChatGPT, an AI-powered content creator developed by OpenAI, has the potential to disrupt many industries and jobs that involve writing and content creation. The technology is able to generate text quickly and accurately, which could lead to a displacement of workers in certain fields such as journalism, copywriting, legal briefs, and customer service.

While it is difficult to predict the exact extent of this trend, it is clear that AI will have a significant impact on the job market for college-educated workers in the next five years. Experts believe that AI will destabilize white-collar work, regardless of whether it eliminates jobs or not. It will be important for individuals to stay up to date on the latest developments in AI and to consider how their skills and expertise can be leveraged in a world where machines are increasingly able to perform many tasks.

(9 min read) (Source: Wired)

How do we deal with the exploitation of users' content by tech companies for the training of AI systems, and how is this particularly damaging for the new wave of generative AI programs like Dall-E and ChatGPT?

Users who generate data have a lot of power and can take direct action, such as banding together to withhold, "poison," or redirect data, as well as regulatory action, legal action, and market action to create an AI ecosystem that both generates amazing new technologies and shares the benefits of those technologies fairly with the people who created them. Examples of direct action include website owners disallowing or limiting scraping by configuring their robots.txt file, and large user-generated content sites like Wikipedia, StackOverflow, and Reddit preventing these systems from accessing their content in stronger ways.

If I create a company that makes millions from from code I learned from books in the library, do I have to give the authors money for helping me learn??

🦾 Today's Top Content:

1. Google's DeepMind says it'll launch a more grown-up ChatGPT rival soon (Reddit)

3. How much are you willing to pay for one of the most powerful tools known to man?? (Reddit)

4. Is privacy even more dead-er than it used to be? Let's speculate wildly. (Reddit)

5. In case you want a trip to Uncanny Valley. People always react strongly to 2 AI’s talking to each other (Twitter)

6. If you want to hypothesize about the doom and gloom of our AI overlords… (Twitter)

7. Or if you have strong opinions on artists using AI… (Twitter)

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