"Automation [usually makes workers] more productive; this reduces the cost and price of goods and services. In turn, consumers spend more, which leads to the creation of new jobs." https://
brookings.edu/articles/under
standing-the-impact-of-automation-on-workers-jobs-and-wages/
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Automation increases productivity, reduces costs, creates new jobs
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Breathless: Eight-Hour Dance Performance Exploring Physical Labor
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Working on a new art and tech performance with Dr. @CatieCuan
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nationalsawdust.org/event/national
sawdust-presents-breathless-catie-and-the-robot-an-eight-hour-modern-dance-homage-to-physical-labor-created-by-catie-cuan-and-ken-goldberg
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AI Meets Medical Robotics: Science Journal Access
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Here's the section on "AI meets medical robotics"
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Workshop on Diversity in Robotics Research and Cloud Robotics
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Looking fwd to this workshop on increasing diversity and participation in robotics research! Starts tonight at 9:30pm PST. I’ll present on cloud robotics and the “Ultra Affordable Robot Design Challenge”. Anyone can join for free via zoom.
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AI Impact on Creative Jobs: Productivity Gains Rather Than Elimination
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I agree: Inequality is a key point in Rattner’s article. But are you saying creative workers are being widely laid off due to AI? I haven’t seen evidence. Which creative jobs are being eliminated? My sense is that GenAI will make creative workers more productive.
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Technology and productivity key to economic progress and living standards
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“…We can only achieve lasting economic progress and rising standards of living by increasing how much each worker produces. Technology — whether…looms or robots or artificial intelligence — is central to that objective…” @stevenrattner_
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GPT-4 and Ironic Justice: Barthes, Foucault and Forgetting
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In a just world, every article about GPT-4 would nod toward Barthes and Foucault. But if our world is just at all, its justice is of the ironic kind that only declares a winner after the race has been forgotten…
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AGI and Neoliberalism: Risk of Intelligence Reduction
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"If A.G.I.-ism = neoliberalism…then we should be ready to see fewer — not more — intelligence-enabling institutions….A.G.I.'s grand project of amplifying intelligence may end up shrinking it." https://nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/artificial-intelligence-danger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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RVT: Robotic View Transformer for 3D Object Manipulation Released
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Just out: "RVT: Robotic View Transformer for 3D Object Manipulation" by @nvidia research …trains 36X faster than Perceiver-Actor (Thx @ryan_hoque
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Dismantling Language Barriers to Advance Global Communication and Collaboration
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Dismantling the Tower of Babel would significantly advance human communication, education, and collaboration. Of course there will be unintended consequences but the upside seems undeniable. https://t.co/9SwbMJ85gh
— Ken Goldberg (@Ken_Goldberg) 23 juin 2023Dismantling the Tower of Babel would significantly advance human communication, education, and collaboration. Of course there will be unintended consequences but the upside seems undeniable.