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Type in your job to see how much AI will affect it
Is AI coming for your job? If so, when?
Unfortunately, there are no clear-cut answers to these questions. Technology develops in unpredictable ways. But a paper published last month by three scholars — Princeton’s Edward W. Felten, Manav Raj of the University of Pennsylvania and Robert Seamans of New York University — offered some helpful insight, at least in terms of artificial intelligence as we now know it. The team looked into two types of AI: One capable of generating and analyzing speech (think ChatGPT) and the other with the same capacity for images (think Midjourney).
It examined dozens of skills that humans use to perform their jobs, from writing to reasoning to lifting heavy things, for the potential for artificial intelligence to enhance those skills or to supplant humans entirely. The chart below provides an example of their analysis of professions related to art, design, entertainment, sports and media…”
Google Search starts rolling out ChatGPT-style generative AI results If you opt-in to generative AI
We’re starting to open up access to new generative AI capabilities in Search. Here are three ways to try it out.
We’re starting to open up access to new generative AI capabilities in Search. Here are three ways to try it out. Today, we’re starting to open up access to Search Labs, a new program to access early experiments from Google. If you’ve already signed up for the waitlist at labs.google.com/search, you’ll be notified by email when you can start testing Labs experiments, like SGE (Search Generative Experience), Code Tips and Add to Sheets in the U.S. And if you want to opt-in to these experiments, simply tap the Labs icon in the latest version of the Google app (Android and iOS) or on Chrome desktop to sign up. You can also visit the Labs site to check your waitlist status. Once you’re in, the new generative AI powered Search experience will help you take some of the work out of searching, so you can understand a topic faster, uncover new viewpoints and insights and get things done more easily. So instead of asking a series of questions and piecing together that information yourself, Search now can do some of that heavy lifting for you…”
- See also Search Engine Land: Hands-on with Google’s new Search Generative Experience. Here’s your early look at a variety of searches on the new Google Search Generative Experience.
- See also The New York Times – Get the Best From ChatGPT With These Golden Prompts. Our personal tech columnist shares how to improve many parts of your life.
- See also The New York Times – Reid Hoffman Is on a Mission: To Show A.I. Can Improve Humanity. Few are as involved in so many different artificial intelligence efforts as Mr. Hoffman, a Silicon Valley investor who co-founded LinkedIn.
- See also Data Science Central – Exploring the Synergy between Bitcoin and ChatGPT: Empowering Financial Conversations