In the coming decade AI could wipe out 300 million jobs, one out of every 11 jobs on the planet. With all technological revolutions, I expect there to be significant impact on jobs but exactly what that impact looks like is very difficult to predict. GPT-4 and things other systems like it are good at doing tasks, not jobs. And so you see already people that are using G PT-4 to do their job much more efficiently by helping them with tasks.
On Tuesday, there was a strange exchange between Senator Richard Blumenthal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman around jobs. In today's episode, NLW builds off that exchange to discuss the current state of the discourse around AI and jobs, including recent job cut announcements from IBM and BT, as well as a World Economic Forum study that argues that 14 million net jobs will be lost globally over the next 4 years.
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