This is the content of my Friday newsletter Five Things AI. Every week I publish links to five articles about the current developments in AI, not so much with a focus on the tech aspects of AI, but more with an interest in finding out how AI changes our work, our economy and how we live in our societies.
‘WarGames’ anticipated our current AI fears 40 years ago this summer
WarGames cannot be 40 years old, but I still remember watching it in a movie theater as a kid… what a great movie, it genuienely sparked my interests in computers. The evil side of AI is still very dominant in the discussions of AI, so WarGames really was an early example of our fear of the machines taking over.
‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle With A.I.
It is important to be constantly reminded that AI is changing the job market and that not everybody is happy about losing his or her job. While I assume that lots of jobs with annoying tasks will get cut, this doesn’t necessarily make it any better for those who lose their jobs.
The hottest new job is “head of AI” and nobody knows what they do
Just in case you wondered what all the NFT, Web3 and Metaverse specialists will be doing now. It’s amazing how may AI experts suddenly appear on the scene. When we did our first investments in Artificial Intelligence startups 8 years ago, not many people where thrilled about it and now we have all those people with AI in their job titles.
Meta’s latest AI model is free for all
This is an interesting move by Meta, which will increase the competition in a space that is currently been dominated by OpenAI. It will be interesting to see what people come up with one they really start tinkering with LLaMA 2 and I’m sure that this will lead to yet another boost of creativity in the field of GenerativeAI apps.
How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead
AI will not just bring film stars back from the dead, it will make it possible to use voice and image of an actor to create new videos from it. This has been done before with CGI, but now it will be done on a much better level and on a different scale. Is that good or bad? For the actor who can just sell the rights for her image and voice to be used without doing any work, this might be a nice paycheque. For others it could mean not getting enough acting jobs to make a living as automagic video generation takes over. Brave New World.
Enjoy. ✌🏻
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