Advances in artificial intelligence threaten white-collar workers and will create a “serious number of losers” in the next decade, says one of the co-founders of the technology’s pioneering AI lab, DeepMind.
“Without a doubt, many of the white-collar field jobs will be very different in the next 5-10 years . . . there will be quite a few losers. [and they] It will be very unfortunate and very upsetting,” said Mustafa Suleiman speaking at the GIC’s Bridge Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. Suleiman left DeepMind last year to found her own chatbot business, Inflection AI.
Excitement about technological advances is tempered by fears that AI tools will transform everything from medical diagnosis to education to copywriting, eradicating jobs.
A recent study by Goldman Sachs predicted that advances in generative AI could boost productivity and increase global annual gross domestic product by 7% over the decade. But it could cause “significant disruption” to the workforce, with up to 300 million jobs potentially affected by automation.
Suleiman said governments need to think about how to help people whose jobs are being destroyed, and a universal basic income could be one solution. . . This is a political and economic move that we must start talking about seriously. ”
AI startups have made huge technological leaps in the past six months, with companies pouring billions of dollars into startups in the space. Microsoft invested heavily in ChatGPT creator OpenAI earlier this year, putting the company at a valuation of around $30 billion.
With the introduction of numerous tools such as ChatGPT that allow users to generate a variety of text, image or video outputs from natural language input, “generative AI” has been put into the spotlight and a wave of hype has spread in the tech investment community. .
Google, which acquired DeepMind in 2014, has developed its own language models such as LaMDA and PaLM. However, the company was hit hard by the launch of his ChatGPT last November.
For LaMDA, “We had ChatGPT a year and a half before ChatGPT.
He added that while Google was firmly in the fight to dominate the new wave of AI tools, ChatGPT “made them dance a little bit.”
An arms race between Microsoft, Google and various chatbot creation companies, including Inflection and Cohere, which raised $250 million last week at a $2 billion valuation, is pushing the AI frontier.
“The past decade has been defined by taxonomies and definitions, but now we are looking at interactions . . Formatting becomes less rigid and everything feels more dynamic and personalized I would,” Suleiman said. The company last week launched its own chatbot, Pi, which stands for Personalized Intelligence.
