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Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller: stop “doommaxxing” fears AI will cause unemployment
Read more: Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller: stop “doommaxxing” fears AI will cause unemploymentEmeritus economics professor at Yale University and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller wrote a fascinating and somewhat contrarian Op-Ed in the New York Times. Shiller focuses on what he calls narrative economics (a branch of behavioral economics) and how people are swayed by narratives (instead of rational economic decision making). Shiller warns all the fear mongering…
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell says AI makes him “much more productive.” Advises students to “master” AI as way to compete in job market.
Read more: Fed Chair Jerome Powell says AI makes him “much more productive.” Advises students to “master” AI as way to compete in job market.While speaking to Harvard economic students, Fed Chair Jerome Powell got into a frank discussion about AI. Yes, AI and automation will replace some jobs. But, at the same time, AI can make people more productive. Powell said he uses AI. And it makes him “much more productive.” So he advises students to “master these…
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Sam Altman asks Congress to regulate AI, warns of potential for “significant harm to the world,” job losses
Read more: Sam Altman asks Congress to regulate AI, warns of potential for “significant harm to the world,” job lossesSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, testified before Congress. The tone he struck was surprising. Altman wanted Congress to regulate AI, warned of its dangers with the potential of causing “significant harm to the world,” and conceded that there will be job losses but was optimistic AI technology would also create new…
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Sarah Maas’ book cover for House of Earth and Blood is AI artwork. Does it get a US copyright?
Read more: Sarah Maas’ book cover for House of Earth and Blood is AI artwork. Does it get a US copyright?Today, we’re seeing the book publishing industry starting to rely on AI-generated artworks. Bloomsbury Publishing, a big independent publisher, is publishing the UK version of Sara J. Maas’ bestseller House of Earth and Blood with an image of a wolf from Adobe Stock images, which discloses that the image of the wolf was “generated with…