Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan is on the verge of being unable to maintain its social functions. Japan had 1.8 million births per year in the 1970s, 1.2 million people were born each year in Japan in the mid-1990s and in 2022 there were 770,000 people born. 500 Japanese schools close in the …
Jason Calcanis talks about the new thing this week, AutoGPT, in the AI transformation. Autocomplete coding makes programmers 5-10X productivity. A programmer replicated the Floppy Bird game in one hour. Describing the anxiety and pain points for artists and other jobs that are immediately at risk. Prompt Engineering – Making the Right Wishes of the …
An online survey of 1000 business leaders suggest that ChatGPT and AI systems will often be involved in the future interview process after companies use the AI to remove workers from some jobs in codewriting, customer support, research and content creation. The level of employment impact is still small as companies also got rid of …
Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, and chair of Humanity+. He helped popularize the term ‘artificial general intelligence’. Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot. He was a Director of …
Geordi Rose is the CEO of Sanctuary AI, which has about $100 million in funding. They have deployed humanoid robots into actual commercial retail stores under a test program. During a week-long pilot test, the store, owned by retail chain Canada Tire Corporation (CTC), saw its mechanical intern handle 110 different retail-related activities in the …
A senior developer tested GPT4 for programming. GPT4 gave the Terraform script code for a single instance of the Fargate API. GPT4 knows that the code will not scale to 10,000 requests per second. It then describes how to create an auto-scaling group and make the modifications to scale the code with AWS and configure …
There is a bet on the prediction site Metaculus, that asks will US labor force participation drop below 10%? The formulation of the argument for the question focuses on automation and a related question on Whole Brain Emulation or other paths to Artificial General Intelligence. The U.S. labor participation rate stood at 61.4% as of …
By 2023, it’s estimated the worldwide global cloud computing market will be worth $623 billion. And IT analyst company Gartner predicts that 50% of all companies around the globe will adopt cloud technology by 2022. So there are sure to be many work opportunities available. If you are considering a career in cloud computing, it’s …
This is an opportunity for experienced product managers or if you know experienced product managers. Cisco is looking to hire 2 experienced product managers for Cisco’s new SaaS product. The hiring manager is my wife. This is a highly visible, innovative, and transformative product for Cisco which will be expanded to cover the entire Cisco product portfolio. Here …
The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending April 4 was 11,976,000, an increase of 4,530,000 from the previous week’s revised level. This marks the highest level of seasonally adjusted insured unemployment in the history of the seasonally adjusted series. 22 million have filed for unemployment. The number working or seeking …
The Credit Suisse US Store Closure Index shows 2019 is on track to be the biggest store closure year in the 24-year history of the index. Credit Suisse projects that retail store closures will accelerate in 2020. Credit Suisse is lowering EPS estimates by –3% on average for 2019 and by –5.5% for 2020 for …