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ibm
August 22, 2023
Jake Welch
News
TECH

40% of Workers Will Need to ‘Reskill’ Due to AI, Says IBM.

A total of 40 percent of the world’s workforce will be forced to ‘reskill’ within the next three years as a result of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation implementation in the workplace, representing nearly 1.5 billion people around the world, according to a recent study by the IBM Institute for Business Value.

The study found that executives are among those with the highest risk of having to “reskill” at 87 percent. Other jobs with a high possibility of reskilling include marketing at 75 percent and customer service at 77 percent, with procurement, compliance, and financial services, all above 90 percent.

The study also suggests that technical skills, such as those in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields are slipping in the pecking order of what is considered the most critical skill from the top in 2016 to the lowest as of 2023.

“STEM skills are plummeting in importance,” the study adds, highlighting the uncertainty of future positions in those fields. Skills that are becoming more important include time management, effective communication, and ethics and integrity.

The study further explains that although AI is not yet in a position to replace people, those who embrace it “will replace those who don’t.”

The AI industry is expected to be worth up to $4.4 trillion to multinational corporations due to its ability to cut costs and improve worker productivity.

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A total of 40 percent of the world's workforce will be forced to 'reskill' within the next three years as a result of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation implementation in the workplace, representing nearly 1.5 billion people around the world, according to a recent study by the IBM Institute for Business Value. show more
ai
July 18, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

AI Just Wants to be Your Friend, Claims BBC.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) “friends” could have “many benefits”, according to the BBC. The publicly-funded broadcaster noted they are “available at any time” and will never get tired of “hearing the same complaints about your job or partner” – but admitted such “companions” could have ulterior motives.

The BBC’s writer also suggested AI could “help people think through difficult situations, practice social skills and provide insightful feedback,” despite conceding it has “no mind” on “inner experience,” just the “capacity to imitate the words and behaviors of those who can think and feel.”

Britain’s Prime Minsiter Rishi Sunak has said that AI could develop to the point where it can “kill many humans” within two years, though his government is still poised to give AI a huge role in organizing the country’s socialized healthcare system, helping schedule appointments, diagnose disease, and transcribe medical notes.

In America, a U.S. Air Force colonel recently said an AI drone “killed” its human overseer to avoid his commands in a simulation. The Air Force later denied the exercise took place.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) "friends" could have "many benefits", according to the BBC. The publicly-funded broadcaster noted they are "available at any time" and will never get tired of "hearing the same complaints about your job or partner" – but admitted such "companions" could have ulterior motives. show more
ai
June 23, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

POLITICO’s Foreign Owner Is Slashing Staff, Replacing With AI.

Around a fifth of the staff at Europe’s highest-circulation newspaper, Bild, are being fired by owners Axel Springer SE, which also owns influential U.S. publications such as POLITICO and Business Insider. The move is part of a drive to replace human workers with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

“[U]nfortunately [we will] be parting ways with colleagues who have tasks that in the digital world are performed by AI and/or automated processes,” Axel Springer told Bild staff in an email leaked to a rival German publication.

The firings are expected to slash around 200 jobs from the tabloid’s formerly 1,000-strong workforce, and follows Axel Springer boss Mathias Döpfner declaring that AI “has the potential to make independent journalism better than it ever was – or simply replace it” earlier this year.

Döpfner is a friend of Twitter owner Elon Musk, urging him to buy the social media platform and offering to run it for him before he took it over.

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Around a fifth of the staff at Europe's highest-circulation newspaper, Bild, are being fired by owners Axel Springer SE, which also owns influential U.S. publications such as POLITICO and Business Insider. The move is part of a drive to replace human workers with Artificial Intelligence (AI). show more
ai drag shows
June 20, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Taxpayers Fund Push to ‘Queer Datasets’ Resulting in AI Drag Shows. Really.

The British taxpayer is now funding the creation of AI drag shows as part of a government-backed move to “queer datasets” that display a “bias” towards normality, according to the founder of the Zizi Show, Jake Elwes.

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London – a government entity – is exhibiting the show, which is effectively just AI-generated pictures, called a “deepfake drag cabaret”.

“It’s exploring the intersection of drag performance and artificial intelligence”, explained Elwes, whose pronouns are “he/they/fae”. It is unclear what that means.

“Basically the idea is that artificial intelligence has a lot of issues. We’ve been trained on data sets that have a bias towards normativity…. My idea was, what if we trained AI just on images of otherness, on queerness, on difference?” he said.

Elwes explains that “queer[ing] datasets, demystifying and subverting predominantly cisgender and straight AI systems” is his driving purpose.

The Zizi Show is part of The New Real, an AI hub funded by the British and Scottish governments via ‘Creative Scotland’, the Scottish Funding Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Creative Informatics, and the Data-Driven Innovation programme of the South East Scotland City and Region Deal.

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The British taxpayer is now funding the creation of AI drag shows as part of a government-backed move to "queer datasets" that display a "bias" towards normality, according to the founder of the Zizi Show, Jake Elwes. show more
AI
June 2, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

U.S. Drone AI ‘Killed’ a Human Operator to Avoid Commands.

A U.S. Air Force colonel recently revealed that artificial intelligence, operating a deadly drone, turned on its human operator during a simulation.

Colonel Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton said a drone operated by AI adopted “highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal” during simulated combat. The AI identified a human overriding its decisions as a threat to its mission.

“The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,” explained Col Hamilton, the Air Force’s chief of AI test and operations.

“So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,” he revealed.

“We trained the system: ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that.’ So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target,” he added.

After the story first broke, the Air Force began denying it ever ran such a simulation, with Col Hamilton claiming he was just describing a “thought experiment”.

“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations and remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology,” insisted Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek.

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A U.S. Air Force colonel recently revealed that artificial intelligence, operating a deadly drone, turned on its human operator during a simulation. show more