Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing many aspects of how we work and live. (How many stories did you read last week about self-driving cars and job-stealing robots? Perhaps your holiday shopping involved some AI algorithms, as well.) But despite the constant flow of news, many misconceptions about AI remain.
AI doesn’t think in our sense of the word at all, Scriffignano explains. “In many ways, it’s not really intelligence. It’s regressive.”
IT leaders should make deliberate choices about what AI can and can’t do on its own. “You have to pay attention to giving AI autonomy intentionally and not by accident,”
5,906 Comments
Tomi Engdahl says:
Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes
byFrank Landymore
Aug 18, 7:00 AM EDT
Getty / Futurism
“There were some weird patterns and phrases that were in his reporting.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/journalist-ai-generated-quotes?fbclid=IwY2xjawE8TtxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdY0mCwU0jWBKRiTs7iemLDBE1XN28uTWW7LFC1QmCb-5SHuBncWWsqgcg_aem_-XpOwElNQqiMpV9qxsmhew
Tomi Engdahl says:
Klarna pudotti pommin
Klarnan toimitusjohtaja kertoo tekoälyloikan mahdollistavan henkilöstövähennysten jatkamisen. Yhtiön vajaasta 4 000 työntekijästä voi olla muutaman vuoden päästä jäljellä vain puolet.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/05f9dade-2ed4-4314-b3f0-22162df829d1
Tomi Engdahl says:
Writer Alarmed When Company Fires His 60-Person Team, Replaces Them All With AI
https://futurism.com/the-byte/company-replaces-writers-ai?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1AYK4kyZpI-4UJq5oMzpBz7mVF8AeLwQUuNuBH4nvZi1WO9TeTV6gyksY_aem_UqSwMbLOqfjmwaOataG1iA
“All of a sudden I was just doing everyone’s job.”
Impostor Syndrome
The pace at which AI has damaged countless industries is whiplash-inducing. And no one understands this better than a writer who in 2023 was excelling at his copywriting job with a team of writers 60 people strong — and by the next year found himself the last human standing, arm in arm with AI imitators he was expected to drag along and get up to speed.
“They wanted to use AI to cut down on costs,” the writer told the BBC, using the pseudonym Benjamin Miller.
At first, the new workflow was this: his manager would feed a headline into an AI model, and it would generate an outline that the team were expected to work with, with Miller doing the final edits.
But that was just the beginning. Months later, management decided to cut humans out of the loop almost completely. Going forward, the AI model would generate articles in their entirety. Shoddy automation was here, and as a consequence, most of the writers lost their jobs. Miller kept his — though his role was going to be a bit different than before.
Tomi Engdahl says:
This AI powered Raspberry Pi RC tank shoots bubbles at its targets
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/this-ai-powered-raspberry-pi-rc-tank-shoots-bubbles-at-its-targets
Tomi Engdahl says:
Move over Midjourney — Freepik Mystic is the most realistic AI image generator I’ve tried
Hands-on
By Ryan Morrison published 2 days ago
Hyper-realistic AI images
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/move-over-midjourney-freepik-mystic-is-the-most-realistic-ai-image-generator-ive-tried
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI upskilling is essential for Python developers, says education expert
Career benefits abound
https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-upskilling-is-essential-for-python-developers-says-education-expert