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https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/these-will-be-jobs-most-impacted-ai
MONDAY, MAR 18, 2024
Large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools haven’t been around for very long, but they’re expected to have far-reaching impacts on the way people do their jobs. With this in mind, researchers have already begun studying the potential impacts of this transformative technology.
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu visualized the results of a World Economic Forum report, which estimated how different job departments will be exposed to AI disruption.
Data and Methodology
To identify the job departments most impacted by AI, researchers assessed over 19,000 occupational tasks (e.g. reading documents) to determine if they relied on language. If a task was deemed language-based, it was then determined how much human involvement was needed to complete that task.
With this analysis, researchers were then able to estimate how AI would impact different occupational groups.
In our graphic, large impact refers to tasks that will be fully automated or significantly altered by AI technologies. Small impact refers to tasks that have a lesser potential for disruption.
Where AI will make the biggest impact
Jobs in information technology (IT) and finance have the highest share of tasks expected to be largely impacted by AI.
Within IT, tasks that are expected to be automated include software quality assurance and customer support. On the finance side, researchers believe that AI could be significantly useful for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing.
Still interested in AI? Check out this graphic which ranked the most commonly used AI tools in 2023.
As many as 300 million full-time jobs around the world could be automated in some way by the newest wave of artificial intelligence that has spawned platforms like ChatGPT, according to Goldman Sachs economists.
Jan 7, 2024
If you haven’t lost your job yet, you should be very thankful. Artificial intelligence and robots are taking more of our jobs with each passing day, and there will be no end to this high-tech invasion. Eventually, we could get to a point where AI and robots can do virtually everything far more efficiently and far more inexpensively than humans can. So what will happen to the vast majority of the human population when their labor is no longer needed? Will a way be found to quietly deal with “useless eaters” that are considered to be “just taking up space”? For years we have been warned that AI and robots would revolutionize the workforce, and now that day has officially arrived.
For example, Amazon has been using various types of simple robots to perform certain tasks for years, and now highly sophisticated humanoid robots are being deployed right alongside normal human workers…
Amazon recently began testing a new robot in its warehouse operations — meet Digit, a humanoid bipedal robot with a turquoise torso and smiley eyes.
Designed by Agility Robotics, which Amazon has invested in as part of its Industrial Innovation Fund, Digit is only the latest of a string of warehouse robots the company has introduced over the last several years. However, most of the other warehouse robots have been cart-shaped or robotic arms, not humanoid like Digit.
Digit costs about $10 to $12 an hour to operate right now, based on its price and lifespan, but the company predicts that cost to drop to $2 to $3 an hour plus overhead software costs as production ramps up, Agility Robotics CEO Damion Shelton told Bloomberg.
How are we supposed to compete with that?
No human worker is going to work for “$2 to $3 an hour”.
Plus, robots don’t need breaks, they don’t get sick, they don’t complain and they don’t steal from the company.
So this trend is only going to accelerate in the years ahead.
Even now, there is a McDonald’s restaurant that is almost entirely run by robots…
You may be thinking that robots won’t be taking your job any time soon because you have a white-collar job that requires a high level of intelligence.
Well, if you are a white-collar worker there is a good chance that your current job will one day be made “obsolete” by artificial intelligence.
In fact, Goldman Sachs is projecting that AI could take as many as 300 million full-time jobs during the years ahead, and most of them will be white-collar jobs…
As many as 300 million full-time jobs around the world could be automated in some way by the newest wave of artificial intelligence that has spawned platforms like ChatGPT, according to Goldman Sachs economists.
They predicted in a report Sunday that 18% of work globally could be computerized, with the effects felt more deeply in advanced economies than emerging markets.
That’s partly because white-collar workers are seen to be more at risk than manual laborers. Administrative workers and lawyers are expected to be most affected, the economists said, compared to the “little effect” seen on physically demanding or outdoor occupations, such as construction and repair work.
So how are you going to make a living when AI and robots do almost everything better and cheaper than you can?
A vast number of jobs will be lost in the years ahead.
Sadly, the truth is that the U.S. economy is already bleeding jobs.
On Friday, the BLS told us that the Establishment Survey indicated that the U.S. economy added 216,000 jobs last month, but historically the Household Survey has been much more accurate, and it showed that the U.S. economy actually lost 683,000 jobs last month…
But that’s just the start. Next we turn to the numbers behind the headline job prints which were rather terrible: the monthly nonfarm payrolls (from the Establishment Survey) may have been weak at 216K but the far more accurate Household Survey showed that the number of Employed workers actually collapsed by an unprecedented 683K, the biggest drop since the US economy was shutdown by covid!
And as I shared with my paid subscribers a few days ago, the BLS report also showed that the number of full-time jobs in the U.S. dropped by 1.531 million during the month of December…
Here, one look at this month’s adjustment and it’s literally a shocker: you will not hear anyone from the Biden admin, the mainstream media, or associated economist cheerleaders mention this, but the BLS reported that in December the number of full-time jobs plunged by 1.531 million to 133.2 million, the biggest monthly drop since the record covid crash of 14.7 million jobs!
If that number is even close to accurate, we are in really big trouble.
For some time I have been writing about the tsunami of layoffs that has been happening in corporate America, and at this point things have gotten so bad that even BlackRock is getting ready to lay off workers…
BlackRock, the world’s largest money management firm, plans to announce layoffs in the coming days of about 3 percent of its global workforce, Fox Business has learned.
The job cuts of around 600 employees, which have yet to be reported, are being described internally as routine, according to a source familiar.
Meanwhile, bankruptcies are surging all over the country.
In fact, the number of bankruptcy filings in the United States in 2023 was 18 percent higher than it was in 2022…
U.S. bankruptcy filings surged by 18% in 2023 on the back of higher interest rates, tougher lending standards and the continued runoff of pandemic-era backstops, data published Wednesday showed, although insolvency case volumes remain well below the level seen before the outbreak of COVID-19.
Total bankruptcy filings – encompassing commercial and personal insolvencies – rose to 445,186 last year from 378,390 in 2022, according to data from bankruptcy data provider Epiq AACER.
Joe Biden will deny it for as long as he possibly can, but the truth is that we are in an economic crisis right now.
But what we are experiencing at this moment is not even worth comparing to what is coming.
So enjoy the last fumes of prosperity while you still can, because this ride only goes downhill from here.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-12-03-china-mass-produce-humanoid-robots-replace-humans.html
By the year 2025, communist China plans to unleash a large number of humanoid robots, meaning robots that look and act like people but are just walking computers and circuitry.
In a race with Elon Musk’s Tesla and other Western companies working on similar technologies, China hopes to start mass producing its version of humanoid robots by 2025.
According to banking giant Goldman Sachs, the market for humanoid robots could reach $150 billion per year in just 15 years. Fully operational humanoid robots are expected to be mass produced and working in factories between 2025 and 2028, and later in other jobs by 2030 through 2035.
Tech for Good author Marga Hoek argues that the technology is a good thing for the world, even though it stands to make human workers obsolete. She believes that up to one in every four jobs will be impacted by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
“My biggest worry is that all humankind spends a lot of time on fearing, instead of accepting and anticipating,” Hoek commented, adding that more research still needs to be done to look at which job roles will still “add value” in a world kept spinning by humanoid robots.
“If we don’t train people, if we don’t anticipate, if we don’t radically change around the school programs, for instance, we’ll be too late,” she added.
(Related: Last year, the tech industry developed AI mind-reading technology to measure citizen loyalty to the government.)
Elon Musk developing rival robot called “Optimus” that functions just like a human being
For all his talk against AI robots, Elon Musk is all about them when it comes to his own companies producing and unleashing them. In fact, Musk is currently working on a rival humanoid robot called “Optimus” that he says will be able to perform the same way as human beings on the job.
Musk says Optimus could be even “more significant” than his mostly plastic electric vehicles (EVs), which have been involved in many autopilot crashes and mysterious battery fires over the years.
In Hoek’s view, humanoid robots will eventually be used to look after old people and young people with health issues or disorders such as autism. No longer will people have other people, including family members, to comfort and care for them: instead, it will be robots providing humans with a “social life.”
“We now have robots also reacting to emotions, and reading behavior,” Hoek is quoted as saying. “We will have robots coping with mental disorders, behavioral disorders, with children and also with adults.”
“If we think about the old people, we’ll have a lot of 65-plus people. Robots can come into play, to support and to help, which also enables people to live longer.”
It is always a good idea to pause and think whenever someone pushing a dystopian new technology such as this couches it as something that will “help” humanity, either through companionship, care, or labor. Chances are that this is just the cover story for a much more sinister agenda.
Amazon, naturally, is also trying to break into the humanoid robot market by developing types to work in its warehouses and factories. The company says that one day there will be “lights out” factories with no human beings working there, just robots.
By the year 2035, humanoid robots will have a “profound impact” on society and the world economy, says Lisa Farrell, Business Development Manager at The National Robotarium.
“Mass producing reasonably-priced robots is achievable with economies of scale and advances in technologies, and we foresee all kinds of robots supporting workforces across manufacturing, healthcare, construction, transport, hospitality and more,” Farrell says.
“Intelligent robots can increase productivity, improve quality control, and help deliver repetitive or dangerous tasks.”
More related news about what China is up to these days can be found at Communism.news.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/robo-takeover-amazon-tests-humanoid-robot-fulfillment-center/5837202
By Zero Hedge
Global Research, October 20, 2023
Zero Hedge 19 October 2023
Amazon has introduced two new robots to speed up deliveries, raising concerns among fulfillment center workers that the e-commerce giant might eventually reduce its workforce.
In a blog post on Wednesday, Amazon said its robotics team will begin testing a bipedal robot named “Digit” at a site just south of Seattle.
“Digit can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways. Its size and shape are well suited for buildings that are designed for humans, and we believe that there is a big opportunity to scale a mobile manipulator solution, such as Digit, which can work collaboratively with employees,” Amazon said.
Amazon explained Digit will “help employees with tote recycling, a highly repetitive process of picking up and moving empty totes once inventory has been completely picked out of them.”
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In addition to Digit, Amazon revealed Sequoia, a new robotic system to help fulfill customer orders faster, already operational at a Texas fulfillment center.
“Sequoia will help us delight customers with greater speed and increased accuracy for delivery estimates, while also improving employee safety at our facilities,” Amazon said, adding it will “identify and store inventory we receive at our fulfillment centers up to 75% faster than we can today.”
It also “reduces the time it takes to process an order through a fulfillment center by up to 25%, which improves our shipping predictability and increases the number of goods we can offer for Same-Day or Next-Day shipping,” the e-commerce giant added.
Amazon said it has more than “750,000 robots working collaboratively with our employees, taking on highly repetitive tasks and freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers.”
At some point, Amazon will realize its robot workforce can do a better job fulfilling orders than humans because robots don’t get sick, take breaks, complain, strike, or waste time watching TikTok videos on their smartphones.
We’ve penned plenty of notes over the years, informing readers about the coming massive layoff wave corporations will have to unleash due to AI. Godman’s Jan Hatzius suggested in a note earlier this year, “Using data on occupational tasks in both the US and Europe, we find that roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation, and that generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work. Extrapolating our estimates globally suggests that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation” as up to “two thirds of occupations could be partially automated by AI.”
… and more recently, younger folk in the labor market are beginning to realize their days are numbered as AI takes their jobs.
For more insight into the rapidly evolving job landscape, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu and Sabrina Lam – using data from MSCI – have ranked the industries where AI-driven automation will displace the most workers.
Now’s the time to evaluate your job and see how automation will impact your industry.
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25 Aug 2023
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As AI-driven robots become more intelligent and more autonomous, could they also become powerful or harmful? The robot named Sophia was created in 2016 by the Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. Sophia’s AI technology has surpassed a simple combination of science and engineering. She has also become an innovation ambassador for the United Nations. But what should we humans expect as we begin to accept the presence of AI robots in our everyday life? Sophia talks to Al Jazeera.
We are at the singularity point. It’s over for humans.
“Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,” said the letter. “Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete, and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” the letter asked.
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/tech-experts-say-ai-poses-a-human-extinction-risk
by Mac Slavo
Jun 1, 2023
Experts on artificial intelligence are coming out and warning of a “human extinction” risk with the progressing technology. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, along with executives from Google’s AI arm DeepMind and Microsoft, were among those who supported and signed the short statement.
“Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,” said the letter. “Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete, and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” the letter asked.
Other tech leaders such as Tesla’s Elon Musk and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have cautioned about the risks AI poses to human society. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement Tuesday read according to a report by CNBC.
In an open letter released back in March, Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and several tech leaders urged AI labs to stop training systems to be more powerful than GPT-4, which is OpenAI’s latest large language model. They also called for a six-month pause on such advanced development.
The technology has gathered pace in recent months after chatbot ChatGPT was released for public use in November and subsequently went viral. In just two months after its launch, it reached 100 million users. ChatGPT has amazed researchers and the general public with its ability to generate humanlike responses to users’ prompts, suggesting AI could replace jobs and imitate humans.
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The statement added that it can be “difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks” and had the aim of overcoming this obstacle and opening up the discussions.
ChatGPT has arguably sparked much more awareness and adoption of AI as major firms around the world have raced to develop rival products and capabilities.
The consequences of putting humanity’s existence into the hands of artificial intelligence, which has no morals or compassion could be dire.
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The future has arrived
The robots serve customers from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, and Uber Eats claimed the use of robot deliveries in the city grew by more than 30 percent month-over-month and more than 200 restaurants in the city have already signed up to offer deliveries using the small robots.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-01-uber-eats-to-deploy-additional-delivery-robots.html
by: Arsenio Toledo
Thursday, June 01, 2023
Food delivery company Uber Eats has announced that it will expand the number of four-wheeled robots that will be delivering food on the company’s app.
The robots are made by Serve Robotics, and the decision to expand the use of robots was made after a successful pilot of the robot delivery program in Los Angeles. The pilot program, which began in the West Hollywood neighborhood last May, was wildly successful.
The robots serve customers from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, and Uber Eats claimed the use of robot deliveries in the city grew by more than 30 percent month-over-month and more than 200 restaurants in the city have already signed up to offer deliveries using the small robots. (Related: Generative AI could replace up to 300 million mostly white-collar jobs worldwide.)
Serve Robotics and Uber Eats will now be expanding the program to several other markets in the United States.
“This partnership is a major step towards mass commercialization of robotics for autonomous delivery, and it is a testament to the success of our partnership,” said Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani in a statement. “We are excited to continue our work with Uber to bring this innovative technology to more cities across the country.”
Serve Robotics’ delivery robots are about the size of a small shopping cart. They are about waist-high with four wheels and a payload dimension that could easily fit two large shopping bags or four large pizza boxes. They can carry up to 50 pounds of food or items and they use the sidewalks in the cities they operate in to conduct their deliveries.
The delivery robots are electric-powered and use artificial intelligence and several cameras and sensors to help them navigate their surroundings. The AI detects when other people or cars are in its path and the robots know when to avoid collisions.
A customer who places a food order on the Uber Eats app gets asked whether they prefer to receive their items via a sidewalk delivery robot or a human courier, with the change not costing the customer anything.
The robot travels up to seven miles per hour on the sidewalk and has a delivery range of about a mile. Kashani claimed customers usually receive their items within 30 minutes of placing their orders.
Upon arrival at the customer’s location, the robot sends a message that it has arrived along with a unique code to input to open the payload lid, ensuring that only the customer can retrieve the order.
Use of delivery robots to expand to rest of California, Texas and Canada
The partnership is slated to deploy up to 2,000 delivery bots through the beginning of 2026. Once completed, this deal between Serve Robotics and Uber Eats would be one of the largest deployments of robotic delivery fleets ever in the United States.
“We expect our rapid growth on Uber Eats to continue,” said Kashani. “We expect to operate an increasing number of [robots] on Uber Eats as our coverage and delivery volume on Uber increases.”
Serve Robotics currently operates a fleet of about 100 robots in Los Angeles. With its partnership with Uber Eats, the company plans to deliver in other cities in California, Texas and even Canada.
“It’s been an incredible experience when you’re pioneering something like this to a city,” said Kashani. “The team and I right now are in the right time and the right place to be working on this and part of history. We are learning how to make robots friendly and likable while cutting down on traffic congestion.”
In addition, Serve Robotics already uses its fleet to conduct deliveries for the convenience store chain 7-Eleven in Los Angeles. It is already working with other companies to expand the use of robots for deliveries in other areas, such as Vancouver for Pizza Hut and Walmart for the entire state of Arkansas.
Serve Robotics is even working with self-driving car company Motional to trial delivering food in Santa Monica using the company’s self-driving Hyundai Ioniq 5 battery-electric cars.
Uber Eats has also been testing different delivery robot options in other locations. It launched a partnership with autonomous delivery robot company Cartken to test the robots in Miami, and following a successful trial expanded that partnership to several parts of Virginia.
Learn more about the takeover of human jobs by robots and artificial intelligence at Robotics.news.
Watch this video from “Future Now” on AMP News discussing the massive job losses caused by automation.
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This week on the podcast we sat down to have a conversation with OpenAI’s ChatGPT – our first-ever synthetic guest. ChatGPT remained composed, professional, surprisingly witty, and nothing less than fascinating. And no offence to all our amazing human guests over the years, but we were very excited to find out what this particular interviewee had to say for itself. From its famous hallucinations to what it talks about when out in a bar with some of its fictional AI pals like HAL 9000, ChatGPT was (mostly) happy to discuss it all.
Transcript: https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/…
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/rise-skynet-robot-dog-gets-chatgpt-brain
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, MAY 02, 2023
A team of artificial intelligence engineers equipped a Boston Dynamics robot dog with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Text-to-Speech voice, creating what could be a real-life Skynet-like robot.
In a recent video posted to Twitter, machine learning engineer Santiago Valdarrama showed how the robo-dog can interact with humans via a voice interface faster than control panels and reports.
“These robots run automated missions every day,” Valdarrama said in a Twitter thread, noting that each mission could be “miles-long, hard-to-understand configuration files” and “only technical people can handle them.” When paired with ChatGPT and Google’s Text-to-Speech voice, a user can ask simple questions to the robot about “configuration files and the mission results.”
“We can now ask the robots about past and future missions and get an answer in real time. ChatGPT interprets the question, parses the files, and formulates the answer,” he said.
The ChatGPT brain means anyone can talk to the robo-dog.
In the short term, integrating a ChatGPT brain into robots may appear harmless. However, there’s a dark risk to artificial intelligence, giving rise to intelligent robots in a Skynet-like scenario.