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Dey took our jerbs. By Jon Foreman

The machines are replacing us! We will be out of jobs! Out of our homes! Starving, dying, destitute on the street!

Those are real concerns that people had during the industrial revolution and the many expansions in automation throughout the 20th century.?Those fears are coming to the surface again now with the rise of AI tools.

Now, will AI take our jobs? To a degree, yes.?But looking back at history, it wasn’t increased automation that led to the tent cities across the US in the 1930s called, “Hoovervilles”, that was mostly caused by factors underlying the Stock Market.

What increased automation and mechanization have led to over the centuries has largely been improvements in the workplace.?Massive changes in work led to strengthened workers movements, which led to shorter workdays, more protections, and higher pay for workers.?Did we over time see some jobs disappear? Absolutely.?But it was a gradual change, and new jobs appeared in other sectors.??

Some parallels can be seen in the Writers Guild of America strike that is currently going on.?Writers want more first and foremost, fair pay, but also protection from the use of AI tools to cut down on their skilled work.??

Does that mean they are against AI? Not really.?AI tools can do a lot of things to speed up the creative process of writers.?From ideation, to proofreading, and even research, but writers sense that a hyper-capitalistic studio system would be open to AI being deeper into the writing process and are trying to get ahead of it.

There are things that AI cannot do.?There are things that AI cannot do well.?These are areas where people will continue to drive forward, buoyed by the things AI CAN do well.?It is up to us, though, to consider the future implications.?It is up to us to demonstrate the essential value of human work, particularly creative work. When we see possible infringements into our ability to do what we do best, we need to stand up. The first step??Using the tools at our disposal to kill the parts of our jobs we hate, and accelerate the things we excel at.

On a recent episode of the New York Times podcast, “HardFork”, there was a lengthy discussion of what the impact of AI on white collar, knowledge economy jobs would be.?Their ultimate assessment? The slow disappearance of some types of jobs that can easily be replaced by automation, and an increase in areas of human excellence.?If your top skill is putting data into spreadsheets, or grammar checking long documents, well…AI isn’t the problem.

Tap into the things you do best.?The high value activities that you do.?Let AI handle the stuff that slows you down.?The AI tools may be out of the box, but WE are the ones that control how they live in this world.

Julio's Two Cents by Julio Rodriguez

Thanks to Julio for sharing these informative links! More to come next week!

LinkedIn: There will be more and more multi-million dollar companies that are just 1-10 people.

YouTube: Breakthrough potential of AI | Sam Altman | MIT 2023

Last week in AI News - Future Frontier by?David Norris

• Geoffrey Hinton - the 'Godfather of AI' quit Google a couple of weeks ago and did so in order to warn about the risks of AI.
• IBM and others are slowing hiring as they look to AI to help augment certain business functions. IBM's CEO Arvind Krishna noted this to the tune of nearly 8,000 jobs.
• Last week news came out that scientists have effectively and non-invasively been able to translate a person's thoughts and output them as text.
• News surfaced that Kamala Harris is set to hold meetings with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google to discuss safeguards and risk mitigation.
• Speaking of Microsoft, they are teaming up with AMD to compete with NVIDIA's AI dominance. If you are unaware AMD and NVIDIA are the major players in the GPU space (graphics cards) and have been for some time.
• A leaked Google document titled: "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" surfaced last week and points to all of the advancements in open source. Open source has become attractive and just as good, if not better, than closed-source models.
• While there is a ton of news for open source, Hugging Face and ServiceNow launched a free code-generating model last week. This is said to be an alternative to Github's Copilot.
• Last week Midjourney dropped 5.1 on us. MJ announced that the V5.1 model is more opinionated like V4 and they even give you a RAW option to prompt sans the opinionated parameters.
• While there is always more news, each week I try and compile what I believe to be the biggest headlines from popular news sites for the Future Frontier News.

To learn more and to connect with the AI creator community:

1. Check out books by?Brian Sykes?at?gumroad and follow HeadSpace Branding
2. Follow?Artificial Inspiration?created by?Chris Branch ?? and join the LinkedIn Audio discussion every Wednesday at 9am ET.
3. Join your 4,400+ colleagues at?AI/CC, created by?Seth Pyrzynski
4. Join the LinkedIn Audio session "From I Sketch to AI's Catch and 3D Revolution" by Sandu Baciu ???? every Thursday at 12pm ET
5. Follow?BRANDEST?and connect with?Jon Porter?&?Kristen Tippit and join the LinkedIn Audio session "The MA.I.N Event: AI for Content Creators every Friday at 12pm ET.
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