In This Issue
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- The impact of AI taking entry-level jobs on career and education.
- OpenAI CEO: 95% of ad agencies work to be done by AI.
- Silicon Valley sees putting people out of work as a massive opportunity.
- Vista Equity Partners: 60% at this conference will be looking for work next year.
- Zapier CEO: 100% of new hires must be fluent in AI.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- ChatGPT mobile usage approaches 20 minutes/day.
- In just 2 years OpenAI matched the number of searches Google took 11 years to achieve.
- In 2025, there are 25,000 AI startups.
- AI adoption in the enterprise is up 7%.
- The Tools of the Trade
- How we moved from image generation to full synthetic media production in just two years.
- The Way We Work Now
- Bank of England is testing AI to predict inflation.
- How Do You Feel?
- Britons among the world’s most worried people about the rise of AI.
What Caught My Attention This Week
The impact of AI taking entry-level jobs on career and education
Kevin Roose, reporting for the New York Times:
In interview after interview, I’m hearing that firms are making rapid progress toward automating entry-level work, and that A.I. companies are racing to build “virtual workers” that can replace junior employees at a fraction of the cost.
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Corporate attitudes toward automation are changing, too — some firms have encouraged managers to become “A.I.-first,” testing whether a given task can be done by A.I. before hiring a human to do it.
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