🚀 The Influence of AI on Employment

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• 🚀 The Influence of AI on Employment

• 💥 AI-Generated Art Stuns the Online World with Memes

• 👥 Nearly One-Third Struggle to Differentiate Between AI and Humans

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🚀 The Influence of AI on Employment: It's Happening Now

Data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas reveals that AI accounted for almost 4,000 job cuts in the US just last month.

In May, employers in the US declared more than 80,000 layoffs, marking a 20% rise from the previous month and a staggering 287% surge from the same period last year. Of these 80,000 job cuts, AI was responsible for 5%.

Despite ongoing worries about job losses due to AI, experts also underscore the possibility of job creation and economic growth in the burgeoning AI sector. The key issue remains: which trend will outstrip the other?

💥 AI-Generated Art Stuns the Online World with Memes

As advancements in AI technology continue to evolve, the internet has discovered some unusual uses for it... (take a look at these unnerving instances)

Individuals are employing AI to enhance their beloved memes, generating eerily accurate and strikingly lifelike pictures.

With the help of tools such as Photoshop AI Generative Fill, images are enlarged by employing algorithms to complete the surrounding voids.

While some are fascinated by the realistic outcomes and the creative prowess of the AI, others find the pictures somewhat disconcerting.

As image manipulation becomes increasingly accessible to the average user, worries about potential misuse are escalating...

👥 Nearly One-Third Struggle to Differentiate Between AI and Humans

The game "Human or Not" may ring a bell as a viral sensation that took Twitter by storm in April. Interestingly, it was actually the most extensive Turing Test ever conducted, gauging people's capacity to distinguish between human beings and AI bots.

In this intriguing game, players had two-minute interactions with either bots or humans, leading to the analysis of over a million conversations and predictions.

Surprisingly, the findings revealed that a mere 60% of players accurately identified AI bots. Players frequently depended on incorrect assumptions, such as presuming bots would steer clear of typos, grammatical errors, or colloquial language, even though the bots were explicitly trained to include these elements. Quite mischievous, isn't it?

In summary, the experiment underscored the challenge of distinguishing between humans and AI, as 32% of players were unable to tell the difference.

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FASCINATING FINDS

• On this day - June 5, 1977, The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, went on sale featuring a 1MHz processor, integrated keyboard, color monitor, sound card, and expandable memory. Its standout aspect was combining all these elements into a single unit. It could also be bought as just a circuit-board. Its success, especially after launching the business-friendly VisiCalc spreadsheet program, caught tech giants by surprise, prompting IBM to develop their own PC.

• Weird but interesting - Concepts of autonomous machines can be traced back to ancient philosophers like Aristotle, who imagined machines capable of performing tasks on their own. Other philosophers including Albertus Magnus, Thomas Hobbes, and René Descartes also imagined machines that could act and perhaps think independently.(Read More)

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• Top AI researcher dismisses AI extinction fears, challenges hero scientist narrative. (link)

• MERT - Acoustic music understanding model with large-scale self-supervised Training. (link)

• Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite the headline of a clickbait article. (link)

• Lisa Su saved AMD. Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown. (link)

• Japan privacy watchdog warns ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on user data. (link)

• Inversion method for extracting edit-friendly noise maps for any given image. (link)

• Why AI won’t eradicate humanity, The why of Apple XR glasses from Om Malik. (link)

• Undetectable watermarks for language models. (link)

• The ObjectFolder benchmark - Multisensory learning with neural and real objects. (link)

• The illusion of China’s AI prowess - Regulating AI will not set America back in the technology race. (link)

• The AI founder taking credit for Stable Diffusion’s success has a history of exaggeration. (link) And his side of the story here.

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