Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly in-depth look at the latest happenings in artificial intelligence.
For several months I have been harp At a certain point, AI tools (which are currently being deployed) are primarily good at one thing: replacing human workers.this “Artificial Intelligence Revolution” Mainly a corporate revolt, a rebellion against rank-and-file workers, using new technologies to reduce the company’s headcount.The biggest seller of artificial intelligence is very open to this— has acknowledged time and time again that new forms of automation will see human work repurposed as software.
We felt that again this week when Mustafa Suleyman, founder of Google DeepMind, sat down to discuss the issue. an interview In partnership with CNBC.Suleiman attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland annual gatheringwhere is artificial intelligence? It is said The hottest topic. During the interview, Suleiman was asked by news anchor Rebecca Quick whether artificial intelligence “will massively replace humans in the workplace.”
The tech CEO’s answer was this: “I think in the long term — over decades — we have to think hard about how to integrate these tools because it’s completely left to the market… These are fundamentally labor replacement tools. .”
That’s it. Suleiman’s claims may sound like some vague future assumptions, but it’s clear that the so-called “labor replacement” is already happening. Technology and media industries—— are uniquely exposed Last year, just as artificial intelligence was “coming online,” the company experienced massive layoffs. In the first few weeks of January alone, established companies such as Google, Amazon, YouTube, and Salesforce have announced more aggressive layoffs. explicit link Wider deployment of artificial intelligence.
this general consensus The view in corporate America seems to be that companies should use AI to run leaner teams that can be supported by small groups of AI-savvy professionals. These AI professionals will become an increasingly sought-after working class as they will provide the opportunity to reorganize corporate structures around automation, making them more “efficient.”
For businesses, the benefits are obvious. You don’t have to pay for the software program or provide health benefits for it. It doesn’t get pregnant, or have to take six months off to care for a newborn, or become dissatisfied with its working conditions and try to initiate a union campaign in the break room.
The billionaires promoting this technology have made vague rhetoric about things like universal basic income as a solution to the inevitable looming loss of workers, but only a fool would think that these weren’t designed to avoid certain Empty promises that put people out of work. Kind of like an uprising of the lower classes. In fact, artificial intelligence is a technology created by and for the world’s managers. This week’s frenzy in Davos – with the world’s richest people flocking to it like Greek farmers discovering the fire of Prometheus – is just the latest reminder.
Today’s question: What’s OpenAI’s excuse for becoming a defense contractor?
The short answer to this question is: not a very good answer.This week, news broke that the influential artificial intelligence organization Working with the Pentagon Develop new cybersecurity tools. OpenAI has previously pledged not to join the defense industry. Now, after a quick change to its terms of service, the multi-billion dollar company is moving full speed ahead developing new toys for the world’s most powerful military. Faced with this rather drastic shift, the company’s response was essentially: Tianjin … “Because we previously had what was essentially a blanket ban on the military, many felt that would ban many of these use cases, which was felt to be very consistent with what we wanted to see in the world,” a company spokesperson told Bloomberg . I’m not sure what exactly that means, but it doesn’t sound particularly convincing. Of course, OpenAI is not alone. Many companies are currently rushing to market their AI services to the defense community.Only such technology makes sense has been referred As the “most revolutionary technology” in decades, it will inevitably be absorbed by the US military-industrial complex.Given that other countries Already doing For artificial intelligence, I think this is just the beginning.
More headlines this week
- FDA approves new artificial intelligence device to help doctors look for signs of skin cancer.The Food and Drug Administration has given Agree Something called DermaSensor unique handheld device Doctors can use it to scan patients for signs of skin cancer; the device uses artificial intelligence to conduct a “rapid assessment” of skin legions and assess whether they look healthy.While artificial intelligence has many silly uses, experts think In fact, artificial intelligence is very useful in the medical field.
- OpenAI is connecting with higher education. OpenAI has been trying to reach out to all levels of society, and the latest area to be broken through is higher education.This week, the organization declare It has a partnership with Arizona State University. As part of the partnership, ASU will gain full access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a business-grade version of the company’s chatbot. Arizona State University also plans to build a “personalized artificial intelligence tutor” that students can use to assist them with their studies. The university also plans to launch a “just-in-time engineering course,” which I guess will help students learn how to ask chatbots questions. Useful stuff!
- The Internet is already flooded with garbage generated by artificial intelligence. A new report A report from 404 Media shows that Google is using algorithms to enhance artificial intelligence-generated content from a large number of suspicious websites. Reports indicate that these websites are designed to take content from other legitimate websites and then use algorithms to repackage them. The entire plan revolves around automating content output to generate advertising revenue. This regurgitated spam is then promoted by Google’s news algorithm and appears in search results. Joseph Cox wrote that “the presence of AI-generated content on Google News suggests” that “Google may not be ready to adapt its news service in an era of consumer access to AI.”
