Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI vol 3

The Upwork Research Institute of 2,500 workers globally found that while 96 percent of C-suite leaders expected generative AI to boost productivity, 77 percent of the employees actually using the tools reported them instead adding to the workload; this was in part due to the amount of time spent reviewing AI-generated content, in part due to the growing demands from superiors to do more work.

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Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI vol 1

Over the years, I’ve found only one metaphor that encapsulates the nature of what these AI power players are: empires. /…/
They justified their quest for power by the need to compete with other empires. In an arms race, all bets are off. All this ultimately served to entrench each empire’s power and to drive its expansion and progress. In the simplest terms, empires amassed extraordinary riches across space and time through imposing a colonial world order, at great expense to everyone else.

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