Obvious and interesting point in this debate. I still don’t know why it matters why/how a decision gets made. For me, the question is only “is this the right decision?”. Poor or good reasons, even if we can know them, don’t justify or excuse a poor decision.
Incidentally, this is no different than how we think about human beings. The reasons for a decision might be interesting or even informative, but they don’t make the decision itself good or bad.
Generative AI models, such as Stable Diffusion, are amplifying gender and racial biases in their outputs, according to an investigation by Bloomberg. The report found that the model depicted women and people of colour as underrepresented in high-paying jobs and overrepresented in low-paying ones. The model was also found to be inaccurate in its portrayal of skin tones and gender, and to have amplified stereotypes of race and gender in its outputs. The report warns that the use of such models in policing and other areas could exacerbate existing biases in the criminal justice system. read more >
The AI in Business Trend Report 2023 surveyed 500 tech professionals to get their take on generative AI in the workplace. Over half of the respondents reported using generative AI, with Chat GPT, CopyAI, and Jasper noted as the top three writing tools. Millennials and Gen Z showed the highest usage, averaging a 58% adoption rate. An average of 61.5% of companies between 11-1000 employees currently use generative AI in the workplace. Overall, the top five biggest use cases for gen AI in the workplace are creative writing, email marketing, idea generation, blog posts, and writing product … read more >
This is a good argument to just keep running with things. It’s inevitable that we would get too much wrong if we tried to engineer the job market to prevent impact from AI.
“It’s understandable that we might want to steer or shape the development of AI technology so that it maximizes the benefits for workers, and avoids the “replacement” part. But there is a big problem with the idea — namely that no one, including Daron Acemoglu or any economist, has any idea how to predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor.”—Why trying to shape AI …
Adobe has launched a number of generative AI-powered services as part of its Sensei GenAI platform, including Firefly, a tool that generates images. Firefly is now available in the standalone Firefly web app, Adobe Express and Creative Cloud. Adobe is willing to indemnify businesses that use Firefly-generated images. Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Journey Optimized now get a generative AI-based marketing copy generator. Users of Customer Journey Analytics will now also be able to use natural language queries to analyze their data and the service can now automatically caption charts and … read more >
The article is about Runway Research, a company that aims to build multimodal AI systems to usher in a new era of human creativity. They offer various AI magic tools, including Gen-2, which allows users to create videos in any style they can imagine with text to video generation. The article also highlights the company’s constant innovation and research at the core of what they do. Runway Research offers a fully-featured timeline video editor with 30+ AI magic tools, and users can try Runway for free. read more >
The article discusses the impact of AI on jobs and the workforce, including the potential for job displacement and the need for adaptation and reskilling. It also explores potential solutions such as universal basic income and the integration of AI and human collaboration. The article provides examples of industries and tasks that are at risk of being replaced by AI, as well as new job opportunities in data science, AI engineering, cybersecurity, and AI ethics. The article concludes with the idea that AI technology should coexist with humans in a balanced way to improve our lives while … read more >
“Rehan Haque, founder and CEO of Metatalent.ai, also stresses the importance of human capital within any digital transformation. When he built his company, for instance, he focused on upskilling, reskilling, cross-skilling and redeployment to equip people to handle emerging technologies. “Humans were the most important thing from an investor’s point of view, and then technology,” he recalls.
That’s all well and good, but will it be enough to assuage customers’ worries? To help firms keep pace, could the likes of AI be put to work to help on the ethical front?”—Is your digital transformation …
“The most at-risk industries are “administrative support” estimated at 46% and “legal” estimated at 44%. The least at-risk roles will be within manual labor and hands-on jobs. The timeline of these estimates is unclear, but potentially within ten years.”—Artificial Intelligence Series 2 Of 5: AI’s Influence On The Workforceread more >
“I’m not looking for perfection, but I would like to come up with a solution that eliminates problems 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. In the end I need a solution that is easy to use, and maintain over time. As it stands now, I consider this attempt incomplete.”
