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AI seems to represent a much greater threat to people in the white collar sector dealing with information tech. People in data collection, software development, web development, research analysis, information security, etc. are far more likely to be replaced by AI.
MONDAY, DEC 25, 2023
If there was ever a moment in history when globalists have been unable to contain their unsettling glee it was the moment that Artificial Intelligence became a focus of public discourse. It’s clear that the World Economic Forum worships AI – Lavishing the technology with praise and describing it as the end-all-be-all of human industry. AI, they claim, will change the world so rapidly that most people will not be able to keep up with the advancements.
We have yet to see any of these advancements in the real world, of course. In fact, it’s difficult to pinpoint any tangible benefits produced by AI so far other than making it easier for college kids to cheat on essays. And here is where we run into a disconnect between what the WEF predicts and what is most likely to happen according to the evidence.
Is AI really the do-it-all technology that globalists make it out to be? Is half of humanity going to be replaced with automation?
The establishment media has been building up this notion as an inevitability, with millions of people (mostly within Gen Z) now experiencing anxiety over the possibility that they will one day have no career options because of AI. The WEF even promotes a term for this feeling: FOBO (which apparently now means Fear Of Becoming Obsolete).
FOBO originally meant “fear of better options,” but the WEF has co-opted it and adjusted it for their AI narrative.
Automation is nothing new to first-world industries and adapting to it has not necessarily made anyone’s place in the economy “obsolete.” The media tends to suggest that hands-on jobs in areas such as agriculture, manufacturing and retail are going the way of the Dodo soon. However, AI seems to represent a much greater threat to people in the white collar sector dealing with information tech. People in data collection, software development, web development, research analysis, information security, etc. are far more likely to be replaced by AI.
AI essentially automates data applications, making it possible for the average layman to one day “code” in a way that once took programmers years to learn. For example, web development is becoming so automated these days it will not be long before web designers are out of work.
AI has exhibited zero evidence of consciousness and creativity and has no capacity to operate widely in the physical world. The globalist answer to this problem is their suggestion that “data” is the new economy, and that eventually robots will handle the physical. This sounds like a pipe dream, but if the “data economy’ is going to be the focus of AI for the foreseeable future, this means that if AI leads to a job apocalypse it will be primarily in the white collar world.
The WEF partially admits to this development in a recent paper on FOBO, in which they argue that around 44% of skill sets will become obsolete by 2027, and 42% of business related skill sets will be replaced by AI.
Far from becoming the all-knowing data-god hailed by WEF zealots like Yuval Harari, it appears much more likely that AI would simply augment or replace a number of office workers. For now, no significant advancements in medical science, space science, engineering, energy science, resource efficiency, mathematics, physics, etc. have been produced by AI. We’re all waiting around for AI to blow past human science and nothing is happening. If all AI can do is put data programmers out of work, what good is it?
Interestingly, AI software makes some incredible claims very similar to the boasts of globalists. Here is what AI had to say about its plans for the world of human art:
“Imagine waking up one day and finding your job has been automated overnight by intelligent machines. Then you discover even the career you dreamed of pursuing next has already been mastered by AI.
Quickly, more and more human domains once thought impossible to replicate – art, music, emotion – fall prey to advancing algorithms until all uniquely human talent and purpose dwindles in the face of superior robotic counterparts. Soon your very existence becomes trivial … unnecessary.”
This is a fascinating omission bordering on delusion. Not the delusions of AI, but the delusions of whoever programmed the software to say this (and no, AI does not currently think for itself). AI art is generally considered generic and often terrible because it merely plagiarizes human art and then spits out an uninspired copy. The notion that a soulless algorithm will ever be able to create emotionally charged art, music, literature and more is naive.
It’s not so much about what AI can actually do (which is very little), it’s more about what the public is convinced that AI can do. Globalists argue that the “data economy” will replace all other functions of civilization and trade as AI takes over. But what good is data without application? The only application of such a system would be to manipulate or control popular perception. To make people believe things that are not true, to influence their behavior and to convince the public that they are no longer necessary.
This is where AI technology shines. It’s not useful to industry, it does little to advance scientific discovery and it doesn’t make the lives of individuals easier; rather it is only useful to the globalist agenda.
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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A major health epidemic, digital dementia occurs when one part of the brain is overstimulated and another part of the brain is understimulated.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-type-dementia-plagues-america
FRIDAY, NOV 17, 2023
Authored by John Mac Ghlionn via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
In the United States, it’s estimated that at least 7 million people over the age of 65 have dementia. If current trends continue, by the end of the decade, more than 9 million Americans are expected to suffer from this loss of cognitive functioning—that’s equivalent to the population of New York City.
Memory impairment isn’t just affecting the elderly. By 2050, the number of U.S. adults over the age of 40 living with dementia is expected to more than double, from 5.2 million to 10.5 million. To compound matters, there’s a new type of dementia plaguing Americans, one that’s affecting people much younger than 40. It’s called digital dementia, and millions of unsuspecting, young Americans are at risk.
A major health epidemic, digital dementia occurs when one part of the brain is overstimulated and another part of the brain is understimulated. When we mindlessly use digital devices, the frontal lobe, which is responsible for higher-level executive functions, gets little, if any, use. Meanwhile, the occipital lobe, the visual processor located at the back of the brain, gets bombarded with sensory input. Slouched over and spaced out, people, both young and old, are abusing their brains, day in and day out. Preteens and teens are particularly at risk for two reasons:
- An American 8 to 12-year-old spends an average of 4.7 hours a day scrolling their lives away. That’s around 70 days in a given year.
- The prefrontal cortex (PFC), the brain region responsible for planning and decision-making, doesn’t fully develop until the age of 25.
Digital dementia impedes both short-term and long-term memory. Moreover, as research shows, excessive screen time during brain development increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, in adulthood. Not surprisingly, excessive screen time is intimately associated with digital addiction. This, in turn, fuels digital dementia, which results in the shrinking of the brain’s gray matter. White matter facilitates communication between gray matter areas. But without gray matter, which plays a critical role in emotions, memories, and movements, there’s really nothing to communicate. White matter helps the traffic get from A to B. Grey matter, on the other hand, is the traffic.
It gets worse. As Gurwinder Bhogal, an excellent British-Indian writer, recently noted, not only is “gray matter shrinkage in smartphone-addicted individuals” a growing problem, the Western average IQ is declining—rapidly, he added.
This has been the case for decades. The decline of brain power has been particularly notable in America. Lead exposure, and, more recently, the effects of draconian lockdowns, have had deleterious effects on Americans’ IQs. As technology continues to rise, IQ continues to decline. Is there an association? The answer appears to be yes.
What we’re witnessing is the Flynn effect in reverse. Named after James R. Flynn, the renowned intelligence researcher who passed away in 2020, the Flynn effect refers to a steady upward shift in IQ test scores across generations. In recent times, however, that steady upward shift has transformed into a spiraling nosedive. This isn’t surprising. In fact, as our lives become more intertwined with technology, and as we outsource more of our thinking and doing to search engines and ChatGPT-like systems, we should expect this nosedive to increase in velocity.
As Mr. Bhogal noted, common sense suggests that the decline in IQ is “at least partly the result of technology making the attainment of satisfaction increasingly effortless, so that we spend ever more of our time in a passive, vegetative state.”
“If you don’t use it,” he added, “you lose it.” Indeed. By “it,” of course, he means your brain. But brain function isn’t the only thing being lost.
The rise of digital dementia, digital addiction, and lower IQ scores is a reflection of a much broader problem. The United States isn’t just struggling with demographic decline; it’s also wrestling with the unholy trinity of spiritual, psychological, and intellectual decline. The country is becoming fatter, sicker, older, and dumber. The movie “Idiocracy” wasn’t a parody; it was a prophecy.
As intelligence levels continue to plummet and test scores continue to fall in the likes of math and reading, the United States risks becoming a society of brainless, aimless individuals, a nation consisting of millions of obese zombies. Contrary to popular belief, societal collapse doesn’t occur overnight; it occurs in increments, a death by a thousand cuts. The biggest threat to the United States isn’t necessarily external; it’s posed by the numerous digital devices in our hands and homes. Technology has consumed both our minds and our souls; are we going to get either of them back?
India’s Silicon Valley has a robust talent pool and a vibrant startup culture, but to scale up massively it needs big investments and massive computing power
https://www.rt.com/india/587179-indias-silicon-valley-ai/
Nov 15, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence, or AI, which refers to the ability of computers or machines to perform tasks that require human intelligence, is common today – globally, and in India’s Bengaluru.
The city has effectively surpassed the rest of India to muscle its way to the top five AI hot spots in the world, according to Harvard Business Review’s TIDE. New Delhi and Hyderabad occupy the 18th and 19th positions respectively. The top four hot spots are San Francisco, New York, Boston and Seattle.
It’s not just the Harvard Business Review. The Brookings Metro Review and a study by Wuzhen Institute have also projected Bengaluru as the next AI hub. Google and Apple are among the global giants that have acquired local startups that focus on AI. And Microsoft and IBM have set up research and development (R&D) facilities for AI products and services.
But can the Indian AI research center become a true leader in this field and surpass the world-famous Silicon Valley?
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How it all started
Back in 1986, when the skyline of Bengaluru, then called Bangalore, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka with a current population of around 13 million people, was capped by a verdant canopy and not concrete monsters with glass facades, a nondescript board in the central business district read Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR).
CAIR occupied the tail-end of a radar development facility of the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO). The decision to establish CAIR was taken by the late Dr. V. S. Arunachalam, then Chief of DRDO and the architect-in-chief of India’s strategically vital programs: development of an assortment of missiles (Agni, Prithvi, Akash and Nag), the indigenous AWACS, light combat aircraft ‘Tejas’, main battle tank ‘Arjun’; and several other defense projects. All these projects have achieved fruition with the induction of the missiles, main battle tanks, AWACS and combat jets by the Indian armed forces.
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics © drdo.gov.in
The late Dr. Arunachalam handpicked Dr. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar and pulled him out of a Canadian university to head CAIR. Vidaysagar roped in his doctoral student, Dr. Girish Deodhare, and set off on a journey of indigenous development of products in the realms of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.
Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy, who relinquished his position as Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister on turning 60 a couple of months ago, recently told RT: “CAIR is leading the activity to ensure that all DRDO labs make systems and sub-systems with in-built AI (artificial intelligence). As we advance, AI will play a significant role in defense and aeronautics programmes.”
Secret of success
What are the key factors propelling Bengaluru ahead of other Indian cities? In short, a robust talent pool, a vibrant startup culture, and an array of research organizations.
According to figures released to RT by the Karnataka State Ministry of Information Technology and Biotechnology, the city is home to 1,530 startups, employing 45,000 people.
Bengaluru has about 100 angel investors in AI startups alone. And some of the city’s ‘unicorns’ include LeadSquared, CommerceIQ, BlackBuck, VerSe Innovation, and InMobi Technologies Pvt Ltd.
ARTPARK @ IISc (AI & Robotics Technology Park), a unique non-profit organization established jointly by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), the Department of Science & Technology of the Government of India and the state government, has been driving innovation in AI and robotics by bringing together the best of startups, academia, industry and the government ecosystem.
A visitor at Intel’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day walks past a signboard during the event in the Indian city of Bangalore on April 4, 2017. © MANJUNATH KIRAN / AFP
That’s not all. Many local enterprises in sectors such as healthcare, agriculture and logistics have adopted AI solutions to address unique challenges. The upshot: the local demand for AI services has encouraged the growth of specialized AI providers.
This boom in AI and related sectors has triggered many job opportunities for talented professionals. While LinkedIn has projected the number of jobs for the year 2023 to be 4,000, the jobs website naukri.com has estimated the figure at 5,220. A recent survey by LinkedIn has revealed that eight in ten professionals (81%) feel there would be a ‘significant’ change in their jobs next year owing to AI, and 71% are willing to learn more about AI.
Growth point and challenges
The city has the potential to emerge as the world’s largest AI hub over the next couple of years, provided behemoths like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys Technologies Ltd invest a couple billion dollars on infrastructure for very high computing capability, according to T. V. Mohan Das Pai, a former member of the board of Infosys Technologies, who has invested in more than 50 companies across different verticals.
“Silicon Valley (USA) has the capital and very high computing power which we in Bengaluru don’t,” he told RT.
Pai said Bengaluru, home to more than 2000 startups with about 2.3 million people working on various technologies, would require investments of gargantuan proportions to acquire high computing capability to roll out products like Chat GPT.
Meanwhile in Silicon Valley, in January 2023 Microsoft announced it was making a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and generate new images.
On computing infrastructure for ChapGPT-type products, Prof. V. Kamakoti of IIT, Chennai, said a gigantic supercomputer with several thousand general graphic processing units (GGPUs) would be required to roll out such products. “If we don’t want a jack of all trades one, but a domain-specific language model, we could do with lesser computing power,” he said, but declined to put a ballpark figure on the amount of funding required for such a system.
Pai’s comment on computing infrastructure and funding comes in the context of the figures mentioned earlier. In addition, such large supercomputers would require an uninterrupted power supply and tons of water to cool the system, according to sources in the IT industry.
Infosys campus. © Gautam Singh / INDIAPICTURE / Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The investor also mentioned that though human capital is fine, the number of doctorate-holders in computer science is insufficient, causing a vacuum at the top of the human resources pyramid.
The need for funding and high computing capability was mentioned in a report released in June 2023 by NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies), entitled ‘Generative AI Startup Landscape in India- A 2023 Perspective’.
It listed a lack of funding as one of the main obstacles for Generative AI startups in India. “Lack of high-quality training data, funding and computer infrastructure are three of the major challenges for startups,” the report says.
As in Silicon Valley, AI-trained people are being lured with fat salaries and other benefits in Bengaluru, owing to the rush for talent.
“We need a new breed of engineers who are trained in AI because we find scaling up (the headcount) a major challenge. The level of attrition is very high because those trained in AI are the most sought-after. Their pay cheques range between Rs 60-65 lakhs to Rs one crore ($72,000 to $120,000), and most of them prefer to work from remote locations,” said K. N. Srivathsala, co-founder of Ngenux Solutions, an AI-based business consulting firm in Bengaluru.
She said some of the engineers are based out of cities like Pune and Hyderabad.
With AI proving an all-pervasive technology, industries are reaching out to retired scientists and engineers of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and DRDO to leverage their expertise in fields like remote surgery. For instance, Dr. Mylswamy Annadurai, former director of the Prof. U. R. Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru, has joined the Board of SS Innovations Pvt Ltd, a surgical robotic entity, to support an effort aimed at low-cost surgeries.
To make sure the city retains its edge over others, the Karnataka government has created a Rs 25 crore ($3 million) fund to nurture startups specializing in ‘deep tech’ and AI as part of its efforts to make sure the city retains an edge over others.
“Bengaluru’s software engineers are primed to do well in the next industrial revolution, which will be powered by software and AI. Therefore, the Karnataka Government is launching various initiatives to support and help open up new frontiers,” Prof. M. V. Rajeev Gowda, a member of the team put together by the Karnataka state government to build ‘Brand Bengaluru’, told RT.
By B.R. Srikanth, a veteran Bengaluru-based journalist reporting on Space and Defense.
ZeroHedge
Tue, 24 Oct 2023
In a deep dive with one of the most controversial figures of modern media, GOP Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks with Alex Jones on ‘The TRUTH Podcast’ revealing unsettling insights into modern censorship, geopolitics, and American exceptionalism.
Dubbed “The Most Censored Man In The World”, Jones’ revelations shed light on the startling decline of free speech and the challenges it presents to the core principles upon which the United States was founded.
“When they censor you and deplatform you they can then steal your identity and misrepresent what you’ve said.”
Jones highlights this as a chilling indictment of the state of modern discourse where narratives can be manipulated by simply silencing dissenting voices, warning Vivek in his usual husky tones that:
I’m not as big as Trump, I’m probably like 5% of the power he’s got and so I have been silenced.
…The idea you get to speak your mind as long as I get to in return, the idea that there’s a republic where your voice counts.
Echoing Vivek’s perspective on the state of the nation, Jones agrees “This is our 1776 moment…”
“…instead of the leftist mind of ‘we’re being attacked, we’re being oppressed, let’s give up'” Jones says “let’s innovate, let’s out-communicate, let’s use this pressure like lifting weights or jogging or climbing a mountain to get stronger… That which doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.”
“It’s true and this is 1776 Part Two for the whole world and it’s very exciting.”
The challenges go beyond mere suppression of speech, as nations grapple with post-colonial identities and evolving geopolitical dynamics, the balance of power on the global stage plays a role:
“The current economic model, the globalists have to enslave us. We are going to resist them.”
As Ramaswamy highlights:
“The Democrats aren’t my enemy. It’s the system, the shadowy figures that are pushing these agendas.”
Reiterating concerns about the fragile state of national unity and identity, Jones warns:
“If we don’t pledge allegiance to the American flag… we’re going to pledge allegiance to a different flag.”
The discussion is broad and deep as the two return time and again to the that the tentacles of corporate influence are omnipresent, intertwining with every controversial issue that shapes the global narrative. Additional topics covered vary from the contentious discourse surrounding climate change (with its fearmongering tactics and misleading statistics):
The climate agenda itself is a hoax… climate change is a constant. I think any person who leads the United States going forward cannot be somebody who accepts the premises of the climate change agenda as a fixed principle.
…to the intricate dance of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East with mentions of “crime families” and vested interests in military contracting.
“It’s not about left or right. It’s about the globalists versus the people,” says Ramaswamy.
“…these other candidates they’re puppets of a broken Super-PAC Puppet Master System and that’s just the state of American politics today.”
It’s a stark reminder of the high stakes in today’s information warfare, where the erasure of a voice can lead to the distortion of its message, and ultimately, to the rewriting of historical facts.
“Our country’s going into a technocracy. That’s why I’m fighting.”
And no one knows better than Alex Jones, the deeply entrenched mechanisms that quash dissent and manipulate narratives in the digital realm.
“The United States of America was founded on free speech and open debate. It’s in the First Amendment for a reason,” he exclaims.
Watch the full discussion below on X:
00:00 Intro
1:55 Censored
3:15 “Don’t Talk to Him”
4:40 The most informed candidate
6:57 Globalist Puppets
8:27 Alex Jones background
13:12 Speaking/Finding Truth
19:00 Admitting Wrongs and Corrupt Trials
28:58 Digital Prison
30:05 Founded on Radical Ideas
32:30 Rules for thee not for me
35:50 Our 1776 Moment
38:30 A Time of Revival
41:58 The Failed Power Structure
45:27 Unapologetically American
48:00 Tyranny of the Minority and the Climate Cult
52:01 Question Everything
53:40 Sean Hannity Attacks and WW3
59:00 Outro
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.”
AI Robots Could Run the World Better Than Humans, Robots Tell UN Summit
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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https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/which-jobs-will-be-most-impacted-chatgpt
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, MAY 04, 2023
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI heralded a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) by introducing ChatGPT to the world.
The AI chatbot stunned users with its human-like and thorough responses. ChatGPT could comprehend and answer a variety of different questions, make suggestions, research and write essays and briefs, and even tell jokes (amongst other tasks).
Many of these skills are used by workers in their jobs across the world, which begs the question: which jobs will be transformed, or even replaced, by generative AI in the coming future?
This infographic from Visual Capitalist’s Harrison Schell visualizes the March 2023 findings of OpenAI on the potential labor market impact of large language models (LLMs) and various applications of generative AI, including ChatGPT.
Methodology
The OpenAI working paper specifically examined the U.S. industries and jobs most “exposed” to large language models like GPT, which the chatbot ChatGPT operates on.
Key to the paper is the definition of what “exposed” actually means:
“A proxy for potential economic impact without distinguishing between labor-augmenting or labor-displacing effects.” – OpenAI
Thus, the results include both jobs where humans could possibly use AI to optimize their work, along with jobs that could potentially be automated altogether.
OpenAI found that 80% of the American workforce belonged to an occupation where at least 10% of their tasks can be done (or aided) by AI. One-fifth of the workforce belonged to an occupation where 50% of work tasks would be impacted by artificial intelligence.
The Jobs Most and Least at Risk of AI Disruption
Here is a list of jobs highlighted in the paper as likely to see (or already seeing) AI disruption, where AI can reduce the time to do tasks associated with the occupation by at least 50%.
Analysis was provided by a variety of human-made models as well as ChatGPT-4 models, with results from both showing below:
Jobs | Categorized By | AI Exposure |
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Accountants | AI | 100% |
Admin and legal assistants | AI | 100% |
Climate change policy analysts | AI | 100% |
Reporters & journalists | AI | 100% |
Mathematicians | Human & AI | 100% |
Tax preparers | Human | 100% |
Financial analysts | Human | 100% |
Writers & authors | Human | 100% |
Web designers | Human | 100% |
Blockchain engineers | AI | 97.1% |
Court reporters | AI | 96.4% |
Proofreaders | AI | 95.5% |
Correspondence clerks | AI | 95.2% |
Survey researchers | Human | 84.0% |
Interpreters/translators | Human | 82.4% |
PR specialists | Human | 80.6% |
Animal scientists | Human | 77.8% |
Editor’s note: The paper only highlights some jobs impacted. One AI model found a list of 84 additional jobs that were “fully exposed”, but not all were listed. One human model found 15 additional “fully exposed” jobs that were not listed.
Generally, jobs that require repetitive tasks, some level of data analysis, and routine decision-making were found to face the highest risk of exposure.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, “information processing industries” that involve writing, calculating, and high-level analysis have a higher exposure to LLM-based artificial intelligence. However, science and critical-thinking jobs within those industries negatively correlate with AI exposure.
On the flipside, not every job is likely to be affected. Here’s a list of jobs that are likely least exposed to large language model AI disruption.
Jobs Least Exposed to AI | |
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Athletes | Short-order cooks |
Large equipment operators | Barbers/hair stylists |
Glass installers & repairers | Dredge operators |
Automotive mechanics | Power-line installers/repairers |
Masons, carpenters, roofers | Oil field maintenance workers |
Plumbers, painters, pipefitters | Servers, dishwashers, bartenders |
Naturally, hands-on industries like manufacturing, mining, and agriculture were more protected, but still include information processing roles at risk.
Likewise, the in-person service industry is also expected to see minimal impact from these kinds of AI models. But, patterns are beginning to emerge for job-seekers and industries that may have to contend with artificial intelligence soon.
Artificial Intelligence Impacts on Different Levels of Jobs
OpenAI analyzed correlations between AI exposure in the labor market against a job’s requisite education level, wages, and job-training.
The paper found that jobs with higher wages have a higher exposure to LLM-based AI (though there were numerous low-wage jobs with high exposure as well).
Job Parameter | AI Exposure Correlation |
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Wages | Direct |
Education | Direct |
Training | Inverse |
Professionals with higher education degrees also appeared to be more greatly exposed to AI impact, compared to those without.
However, occupations with a greater level of on-the-job training had the least amount of work tasks exposed, compared to those jobs with little-to-no training.
Will AI’s Impact on the Job Market Be Good or Bad?
The potential impact of ChatGPT and similar AI-driven models on individual job titles depends on several factors, including the nature of the job, the level of automation that is possible, and the exact tasks required.
However, while certain repetitive and predictable tasks can be automated, others that require intangibles like creative input, understanding cultural nuance, reading social cues, or executing good judgement cannot be fully hands-off yet.
And keep in mind that AI exposure isn’t limited to job replacement. Job transformation, with workers utilizing the AI to speed up or improve tasks output, is extremely likely in many of these scenarios. Already, there are employment ads for “AI Whisperers” who can effectively optimize automated responses from generalist AI.
As the AI arms race moves forward at a rapid pace rarely seen before in the history of technology, it likely won’t take long for us to see the full impact of ChatGPT and other LLMs on both jobs and the economy.
What are rare earth elements, and why are they important?
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U.S. Geological Survey news release “Going Critical”
The rare earth elements (REE) are a set of seventeen metallic elements. These include the fifteen lanthanides on the periodic table plus scandium and yttrium.
Rare earth elements are an essential part of many high-tech devices. The U.S. Geological Survey news release “Going Critical” explains:
“Rare-earth elements (REE) are necessary components of more than 200 products across a wide range of applications, especially high-tech consumer products, such as cellular telephones, computer hard drives, electric and hybrid vehicles, and flat-screen monitors and televisions. Significant defense applications include electronic displays, guidance systems, lasers, and radar and sonar systems. Although the amount of REE used in a product may not be a significant part of that product by weight, value, or volume, the REE can be necessary for the device to function. For example, magnets made of REE often represent only a small fraction of the total weight, but without them, the spindle motors and voice coils of desktops and laptops would not be possible.
In 1993, 38 percent of world production of REEs was in China, 33 percent was in the United States, 12 percent was in Australia, and five percent each was in Malaysia and India. Several other countries, including Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, made up the remainder. However, in 2008, China accounted for more than 90 percent of world production of REEs, and by 2011, China accounted for 97 percent of world production. Beginning in 1990 and beyond, supplies of REEs became an issue as the Government of China began to change the amount of the REEs that it allows to be produced and exported. The Chinese Government also began to limit the number of Chinese and Sino-foreign joint-venture companies that could export REEs from China.”
Two-thirds of jobs in the US and Europe are vulnerable to some degree of Artificial Intelligence automation, a report has claimed
https://www.rt.com/business/573788-artificial-intelligence-goldman-sachs-forecast/
March 29, 2023
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Artificial intelligence (AI) could cause “significant disruption” to the labor market and jeopardize millions of jobs around the world, if it lives up to its potential, Goldman Sachs has claimed.
Generative AI such as ChatGPT could replace up to 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, according to estimates shared in a report published by the investment bank on Sunday. The technology, which can independently create new material, represents “a major advancement with potentially large macroeconomic effects,” Goldman Sachs argued.
Roughly two-thirds of jobs in the US and Europe are exposed to “some degree of AI automation,” while generative AI could be used as a substitute for a quarter of current jobs.
“Despite significant uncertainty around the potential of generative AI, its ability to generate content that is indistinguishable from human-created output and to break down communication barriers between humans and machines reflects a major advancement with potentially large macroeconomic effects,” Goldman Sachs said.
READ MORE: Upbeat economic outlook issued for China
At the same time, the report states that most industries are only “partially exposed to automation,” making it more likely that they will be “complemented rather than substituted by AI.” Some 7% of positions in the US could be replaced by AI, with 63% being complemented by the innovative technology and 30% being unaffected by it, according to estimates.
Goldman Sachs also claimed that historically positions that were displaced by automation were offset by the creation of new jobs and occupations, increasing the value of goods and services.
“The combination of significant labor cost savings, new job creation, and higher productivity for non-displaced workers raises the possibility of a productivity boom that raises economic growth substantially,” the report said.
According to Goldman Sachs, widespread adoption of AI could eventually increase the annual global GDP by 7%.
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Although there may be some beneficial uses for AI, the dark side of humanity will misuse it in extremely destructive ways. Already, AI has been elevated above the control of nation-states and human government, and its creators are intentionally recreating the future without public input. ⁃ TN Editor
The creator of the first robot artist is warning that the rise of artificial intelligence is “apocalyptic” – and we are “hurtling” toward AI taking over from humans.
Aidan Meller, who is behind the ultra-realistic Ai-Da robot, reckons within three years we will face unimaginable changes as man merges with machine.
He also believes Elon Musk is correct when he claims nuclear war would have less impact on mankind than AI.
Aidan says: “I agree with Elon Musk that AI is a bigger threat than nuclear war – but it could also be remarkable too.
“There is every right to feel nervous about the rise of AI.
“We are hurtling towards them taking over humans so we need to have a heart of ethics.
“We are merging with machines – be warned, this is a changing world.”
Aidan will be there with Ai-Da, who had an art exhibition at Glastonbury where she painted headliner Billie Eilish.
She will meet schoolchildren and create a new piece of artwork for the event.
Aidan adds: “AI is going to show a mirror to the dark side of being human.
“Technology is not good or bad, it’s how we use it. This exhibition will show how it came about and where we want to go.
The news station received confirmation from Xcel, which stated that 22,000 customers who signed up for the Colorado AC Rewards program were locked out of their thermostats on Tuesday.
Smartphones, smart meters, and smart thermostats are devices that will eventually be used against us all. It starts with the thermostat. Lou
https://www.rebelnews.com/coloradans_locked_out_of_smart_thermostats_sweltering_heat
September 01, 2022
As the summer heat reaches sweltering levels in Colorado, Xcel customers have found themselves unable to adjust their thermostats to keep temperatures down.
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As the summer heat reaches sweltering levels in Colorado, Xcel customers have found themselves unable to adjust their thermostats to keep temperatures down.
After temperatures climbed to 90 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, Colorado residents subscribed to Xcel found that they were unable to cool their homes when they were informed by their thermostats that they were locked out from adjusting the air conditioning due to an “energy emergency.”
Xcel Energy is the company that makes these products.
“Normally, when we see a message like that, we’re able to override it,” said Arvada resident Tony Talarico in ABC’s Denver Channel:
In this case, we weren’t. So, our thermostat was locked in at 78 or 79.
Numerous Xcel customers took to Twitter to complain about their experiences, with some complaining that their homes were locked to a scorching 88 degrees.
The news station received confirmation from Xcel, which stated that 22,000 customers who signed up for the Colorado AC Rewards program were locked out of their thermostats on Tuesday.
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