Five Things AI: WarGames, Call Center, Head of AI, LLaMA 2, Jimmy Dean
Artificial Intelligence probably won't go away anytime soon.
The writers and actors in Hollywood are on strike and AI is one of the issues. I assume this will only be the beginning and soon employees in other industries who feel affected by the advances in Artificial Intelligence will go on strike. This will not just be the case for office workers who meddle with spreadsheets, but also well-paid lawyers who suddenly see more than just basic legal work being handled by the machine. I’m curious how this will change business life when people who currently possess knowledge and power will be outpaced by AI based products. Will this make things better or worse?
Did you listen to Johnny Cash perform “Barbie Girl”? Is this good? Bad? Weird? Scary? All of it? I’m sure this is only the beginning.
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‘WarGames’ anticipated our current AI fears 40 years ago this summer
WarGames cannot be 40 years old, but I still remember watching it in a movie theater as a kid… what a great movie, it genuienly sparked my interests in computers. The evil side of AI is still very dominant in the discussions of AI, so WarGames really was an early example of our fear of the machines taking over.
‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle With A.I.
It is important to be constantly reminded that AI is changing the job market and that not everybody is happy about losing his or her job. While I assume that lots of jobs with annoying tasks will get cut, this doesn’t necessarily make it any better for those who lose their jobs.
The hottest new job is “head of AI” and nobody knows what they do
Just in case you wondered what all the NFT, Web3 and Metaverse specialists will be doing now. It’s amazing how may AI experts suddenly appear on the scene. When we did our first investments in Artificial Intelligence startups 8 years ago, not many people where thrilled about it and now we have all those people with AI in their job titles.
Meta’s latest AI model is free for all
This is an interesting move by Meta, which will increase the competition in a space that is currently been dominated by OpenAI. It will be interesting to see what people come up with one they really start tinkering with LLaMA 2 and I’m sure that this will lead to yet another boost of creativity in the field of GenerativeAI apps.
How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead
AI will not just bring film stars back from the dead, it will make it possible to use voice and image of an actor to create new videos from it. This has been done before with CGI, but now it will be done on a much better level and on a different scale. Is that good or bad? For the actor who can just sell the rights for her image and voice to be used without doing any work, this might be a nice paycheque. For others it could mean not getting enough acting jobs to make a living as automagic video generation takes over. Brave New World.
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