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šŸ˜ŗ Will AI replace us? Yes, no, maybe soā€¦

PLUS: ChatGPT-4 trained on *1 MILLION* hours of YouTube!

Welcome, humans.

The mainstream media loves to sensationalize AI as inherently ā€œbadā€ or ā€œevil,ā€ often lacking nuanced perspectives or viable solutions. At The Neuron, we take pride in highlighting AIā€™s potential and problems, guided by evidence, even when it leads us into tricky territory.

Nobody Puts Baby AI in a Corner Box.

Hereā€™s what you need to know about AI today:

  • Amazon is scrapping its ā€œJust Walk Outā€ tech in its grocery stores.

  • OpenAI trained GPT-4 on 1M+ hours of YouTube content.

  • Starting in May, AI-generated content on Metaā€™s platforms will be tagged with ā€œMade with AIā€ disclaimers.

  • Elon Muskā€™s xAI is in talks to potentially raise $3B at an $18B valuation.

Will AI replace humans? Yes, no, maybe soā€¦

The burning question of 2024 is, ā€œWill AI take my job?ā€

If you caught Jon Stewartā€™s 15-minute viral take on ā€œThe False Promises of AI,ā€ you might have come away wishing death to the robots more than after a Blade Runner marathon.

Stewart presents a paradoxical view, asserting that:

  1. AI is overhyped (e.g. it can barely make Zuckerbergā€™s toast).

  2. Yet, AI could soon massively displace jobs.

The segment correctly notes that current AI can automate certain jobs significantly and quickly, such as customer supportā€”Klarnaā€™s AI did the work of 700 support agents, and e-commerce platform Dukaan laid off 90% of its customer support staff due to AI.

But displacing workers en masse? Thatā€™s actually not what the data says yet.

In fact, some professions, like video editing, accounting, and sales, have seen a demand surge since ChatGPTā€™s rise:

At The Neuron, weā€™re also optimistic that the AI Revolution will usher in new jobs, as has been the case with most disruptive technologies throughout history.

Will those jobs be people who rate a chatbotā€™s output? Data labelers? Prompt engineers? TBH, itā€™s anyoneā€™s guess.

(Stewart quips that calling someone who types questions a ā€˜prompt engineerā€™ is like calling a janitor a ā€˜doctor of moppingā€™. We canā€™t help but agree).

Why it matters: Three realities coexist:

  1. AI will replace jobs.

  2. AI will create new jobs.

  3. This will all happen at a breakneck speed.

But it wonā€™t happen overnight. Many AI solutions arenā€™t yet capable of automating away an entire personā€™s job or even doing that job well at allā€¦

The Information reported that Amazon is ditching its automated, cashier-free grocery stores cause the tech just didnā€™t work that well.

ā€œThe good news is that most roles are more about workflowsā€”engineers write code AND analyze data AND write emails.

So far, AI has mostly boosted productivity for white-collar workers, rather than forcing them to update their LinkedIn bios to ā€œopen for workā€.

Yes, AI will take jobs, but itā€™ll also create new ones. The best thing you can do today is learn how to work closely with AI in your field.

(Case in point: 63% of tech employers now favor folks who can code with AI rather than just knowing how to code).ā€

The Neuron 5 months ago.

Around the Horn.

  • Meta's platforms will start tagging AI-generated content with a "Made with AI" disclaimer this May.

  • OpenAI reportedly trained ChatGPT-4 on 1M+ hours of YouTube videos; Google also trained its models on YouTube.

  • Jony Ive, the brain behind the iPhone's design, and OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman are in talks with VCs to raise funds for a hush-hush AI gadget.

  • Elon Muskā€™s xAI is in talks to potentially raise $3B at an $18B valuation.

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