Money Talks looks at the remaking of the global car industry. A bot recites text we generated using chat GPT to apologize on behalf of Artificial Intelligence AI. Data analysis, fact checking, and even writing news articles can now be automated by machines. This has resulted in the displacement of some jobs in the field, and for that, I am sorry.
The past few years have proved tumultuous both for American consumers and for retailers selling to them. The end result is a curious slump for middle-of-the-road brands. Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT stands to disrupt everything from art to coding; we self-interestedly explore probable effects on journalism. And remembering Ranajit Guha, a historian who saw a different India by looking bottom-up.
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