Every job that can be automated or replaced will be where GDP or productivity with and shareholder value is prioritized. Period. When have you heard the phrase, “we can save money and time with X job done with AI but we care more about people and planet?”
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X Risk Community Mobilizes Against AI Deepfakes and Job Displacement
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“X risk community” has adapted to this by telling the normies to sign petitions against AI doing deepfake porn and making everybody unemployed
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Defining AGI: Surpassing Humans in Economically Valuable Tasks
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The def I'm familiar with is: AGI = "an autonomous system that surpasses human in most economically valuable tasks." For "economically valuable tasks" I like to look at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics index of occupations: https://
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab Launches Under Erik Brynjolfsson
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February 2020: Digital economy scholar Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn joined @StanfordHAI as a senior fellow and launched the Stanford @digeconlab
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FranceIA Hub: European leadership in GenAI within 5 years
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[#Article] FranceIA Hub: how to make France and Europe leaders in GenAI within 5 years? https://actuia.com/actualite/hub-france-ia-comment-faire-de-la-france-et-leurope-des-leaders-de-la-genai-dici-5-ans/
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Scale AI Remotasks Access Blocked Across Multiple African Countries
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Update: This is worse than I thought. Workers in Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa are also reporting that they are being blocked from the website or cannot create an account. It's possible that Scale AI suspended Remotasks far beyond just Kenya.
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Musk’s Self-Driving Timeline Shifts Again After Years of Predictions
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My brain hurts trying to figure this out. Headline: "Elon Musk Says It Will Be A Decade Before Most Cars Are Self-Driving — There Is A More 'Immediate Concern' At Hand". From the guy who has said every year for ten years that self driving will be here by the end of the year, the
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AI transforms public spaces transit retail education employment
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Most people spend lots of time in public transit, on city sidewalks, in retail stores, places of education, employment and administration
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Money as Digital Dopamine in Planetary AGI Networks
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money is digital dopamine, a message type in a global information network that strings 8 billion talking monkeys into a planetary agi
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Human Expertise Remains Valuable Under AGI Compute Constraints
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Worthwhile economic argument about why human intellectual labor will be valuable even if we achieve AGI: As long as AGI compute is limited (& it will be under any reasonable scenario), it may be cheaper to use human experts in their area of expertise, saving AGI for other work.