Who Will Be the Japan of the AI Era? - By Nicolas Colin Who Will Be the Japan of the AI Era?
While much of the discourse around AI’s impact tends to polarize around “more jobs” or “fewer jobs,” there is a third alternative: different jobs**.** Some economists predict that, unlike industrial automation, AI will reduce the skill premium, acting as a corrective force on the disparity between wages for “skilled” and “unskilled” labor. They arg
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AI Is Evolving —And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence | NOEMA
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The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt
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In short, AI algorithms will be to many white-collar workers what tractors were to farmhands: a tool that dramatically increases the productivity of each worker and thus shrinks the total number of employees required. And unlike tractors, algorithms can be shipped instantly around the world at no additional cost to their creator. Once that software
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