This year, AI will erase jobs at a growing pace but not improve companies’ efficiency, productivity, or profitability until later, economists expect.
Tag: AI
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STARTUP TOUTS NOVEL ‘ENERGY-BASED’ AI TRAINING METHOD
Logical Intelligence, a Silicon Valley venture created last August, is claiming its new “energy-based” approach to AI design and training is more accurate than the best-known large language models (LLMs) while also using less power.
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HUMAN SET-ASIDES
Will politicians and those in jurisprudence act rationally to compensate and protect people from ongoing rampant exploitation by the AI industry?
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FIGHT FOR HUMAN ACTORS STAGED AT CES 2026
Many spectacular visuals of the early 2000s Lord Of The Rings movie trilogy were only made possible via digital character and other computer-generated effects developed specifically for that ambitious undertaking.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: BIOTECH EUGENICS AND NYT TIMES EV GO FU?
Choosing whether or not to bring children to term based on their genetic attributes is set to go mainstream in 2026.
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KEEP AI OUT OF CLASSROOMS, STUDY URGES
After speaking with 500 AI experts, educators, and students in 50 countries, and reviewing relevant studies, researchers at the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education have reached a conclusion: AI in schools carries serious risks for students.
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AI SAVES, THEN RECLAIMS WORKERS’ TIME
AI is saving white-collar workers time, which they then use to check AI’s work and correct its mistakes, according to a study by Workday, a business services website.
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AI WILL SAVE TIME ON HOUSEHOLD CHORES, OPENAI SAYS
Unpaid household tasks such as buying groceries or vacuuming the carpet represent a value equivalent to 15 percent of U.S. GDP, by some estimates.
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CHINA IS WINNING THE GLOBAL AI RACE, MICROSOFT SAYS
Through the creation of low-priced open-source models subsidized lavishly by Beijing,
China is spreading its AI presence and technologies to more users faster than Western developers are, Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a Financial Times interview.
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AI USES EVOLUTION’S HISTORY TO SEARCH FOR NEW MEDICAL TREATMENTS
Scientists from Microsoft and Nvidia are part of an international team that has created an AI system called Eden that tracks the evolutionary history of microbes using a database that has never been used publicly until now.