The World as You’ll Know It: The Great Rebuild

AI Took My Career!

Aug 15, 2023

Amy Winter, a concept artist, and Brian Merchant, a technology columnist, explore the threat of generative AI to their careers. They discuss the impact of AI on various professions, the anxieties of artists, taxing capital, AI's impact on creative work, and the social role of AI in human lives.

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Amy Winter

Brian Merchant

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Quick takeaways

AI-generated art may replicate 80% of the quality at a lower cost, but it is unlikely to produce truly innovative and groundbreaking work.

The use of AI in creative industries raises concerns about job displacement and the potential reduction of worker power.

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Impact of AI on Creative Industries

The emergence of AI art generators has raised concerns among artists like Amy Winter, who fear that their work may become irrelevant and replaced by AI-generated art. These programs can create impressive images just by describing them, but often contain basic errors that a human artist would never make, such as poorly rendered hands. While AI may improve and render images more accurately, it is unlikely to produce truly innovative and groundbreaking work like famous artists in history. However, for everyday creative work, AI may be able to replicate 80% of the quality at a fraction of the cost.

Introduction

2min

Concerns of a Young Art School Graduate

9min

The Impact of AI on Various Professions and Industries

9min

Taxing Capital, Human Involvement in Technology, and Vulnerable Workers

2min

AI's Impact on Creative Work

4min

AI and Human Relationships: Exploring the Social Role and Ethical Issues

3min

The emergence of generative AI threatens to automate millions of jobs, potentially ushering in a new and unprecedented wave of job displacement. In the past, newly created jobs replaced those lost. Will that happen this time? To discuss this, Gary Marcus is joined by Amy Winter, a concept artist who sees generative AI as a threat to her career, Brian Merchant, the technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of “Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech”, and Dr. Erik Brynjolffson, an economist and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, that studies the effects of technology on the workforce.

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