Attention Economy


Tuesday, March 28, 2023

AI and the Future of White-Collar Jobs

A.I. May Change Everything, but Probably Not Too Quickly
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/opinion/ai-chatgpt-jobs-economy.html
Paul Krugman (2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics):
Like previous leaps in technology, this will make the economy more productive but will also probably hurt some workers whose skills have been devalued. Although the term “Luddite” is often used to describe someone who is simply prejudiced against new technology, the original Luddites were skilled artisans who suffered real economic harm from the introduction of power looms and knitting frames.
But this time around, how large will these effects be? And how quickly will they come about? On the first question, the answer is that nobody really knows. Predictions about the economic impact of technology are notoriously unreliable. On the second, history suggests that large economic effects from A.I. will take longer to materialize than many people currently seem to expect.

Tinkering With ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/business/economy/jobs-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt.html
Artificial intelligence is confronting white-collar professionals more directly than ever. It could make them more productive — or obsolete. 

The Jobs Most Exposed to ChatGPT

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-jobs-most-exposed-to-chatgpt-e7ceebf0


300 million jobs could be affected by latest wave of AI, says Goldman Sachs
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/chatgpt-ai-automation-jobs-impact-intl-hnk/index.html

Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance
https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberggpt-50-billion-parameter-llm-tuned-finance/