Category: Economics
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AI and the Future of Work – Lessons from History
Just this week Carl Frey gave a presentation on ‘AI and the Future of Work – Lessons from History’ at a conference organised by Georgetown McDonough School of Business’ Center for Business and Public Policy. Frey is at the Oxford Internet Institute and really is a world-leading thinker on AI impacts, and this lecture is…
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Prime Turkeys helping sharpen the Christmas carving knives?
Fascinating piece in The Observer this weekend, written (beautifully) by a journalist who works for one of the big AI companies, providing ‘gold standard’ examples of writing to help train their Large Language Model, and improve their Chatbot’s answers. (Thanks to excellent writer-buddy Paul for passing it on). The gut reaction to this for me…
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Greenbelt, why AI might be making us stupid, and booking AI training…
Was great to be at Greenbelt Festival talking about the new book, and speaking on a panel about AI and Earthly Futures. Both were recorded, and I’ll post links once they’re available. I mentioned in the talk and the panel the vital need for us to take more radical responsibility for our technology use (and…
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A Continental AI Strategy for Africa
Very interesting discussion this morning with Rachel Adams from the African AI Observatory. Rachel is based in South Africa and has been a leading figure in putting together the Continential AI Strategy published just last month by the African Union. She’s written a paper about it with Ayantola Alayande here. You’ll be able to watch…
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I want my money back: investment problems and CrapGPT
Really interesting piece in Alex Hern’s always-excellent tech newsletter. In short: OpenAI are forecast to spend $5,000,000,000 more than it makes in revenue this year… and are going to need to raise some major extra cash. But that is becoming more of a problem, because the shine is coming off AI: “The first time you…
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There’s nothing we can do to stop AI stealing all our jobs! Except… urrm…
Atlantic magazine unearthed an extraordinarily candid video interview a couple of weeks ago, in which Brian Wu – a senior engineer at OpenAI responded to a question about AI’s impact on work: ‘I guess it’s kind of deeply unfair that, like, a group of people can build AI and just take everyone’s jobs away, and,…