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fromFast Company
4 days ago

This sentence about AI got Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak applause-not boos-for his commencement speech

AI is being framed as both promising and disappointing, with public reactions ranging from applause to boos over claims and real-world failures.
Film
fromFortune
2 months ago

Sam Altman turned down a documentary's requests to talk. So the director cast a 'Sam Bot' as its protagonist | Fortune

Two documentaries examine AI's dual nature as both an existential threat to human creativity and employment, and a potential force for enlightenment and societal enrichment.
Silicon Valley
fromFast Company
4 days ago

This sentence about AI got Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak applause-not boos-for his commencement speech

AI is being framed as both promising and disappointing, with public reactions ranging from applause to boos over claims and real-world failures.
Film
fromFortune
2 months ago

Sam Altman turned down a documentary's requests to talk. So the director cast a 'Sam Bot' as its protagonist | Fortune

Two documentaries examine AI's dual nature as both an existential threat to human creativity and employment, and a potential force for enlightenment and societal enrichment.
#ai-job-displacement
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Amazon CEO says many jobs we've 'thrown human beings at' for the last 20-30 years won't need as many humans

AI will eliminate many existing jobs while creating new ones, as has occurred with previous technology shifts.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Amazon CEO says many jobs we've 'thrown human beings at' for the last 20-30 years won't need as many humans

fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Play It Again, Claude

By the early 1900s, player pianos had evolved to more fully reproduce a human performance, including subtle dynamics like tempo changes and the introduction of a damper pedal. The human role went from deskilled to fully deprecated as electric motors replaced foot-powered bellows. With the Seeburg Lilliputian Model L, the only job left for humans who wanted to play the piano in the 1920s was to put in a coin.
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