AI and Lifestyle Centric Career Planning

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Jesse: Ben, I'm using the inclusion of AI in your question to secretly get in an example of lifestyle centric career planning. This is a strategy in which instead of just jumping into something new, you try it on the side and say, can I actually make money at this? The idea here is that people paying you money is the most unbiased feedback you will get about how valuable or viable the thing you're doing actually is. All right, let's do one more question before I kind of run out of the ability to talk about AI anymore. Most people are purging it from our re-purging system today but we're getting all the social media systems used by G

Are new AI technologies like ChatGPT about to massively disrupt our world? Drawing from his recent New Yorker article on the topic, Cal explains exactly how programs like ChatGPT work, and uses this knowledge to explain why we can calm our fears about this new technology.

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Today’s Deep Question: How does ChatGPT work? (And should we worry about it?) [11:24]

- Is there anything AI won’t do better than humans? [57:30]

- How will AI end up disrupting knowledge work? [1:02:27]

- Should I quit web development before AI eliminates the industry? [1:07:32]

- Will AI create mass job loss in the next five years? [1:11:52]

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newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/what-kind-of-mind-does-chatgpt-have

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