Information Today, Inc. Corporate Site KMWorld CRM Media Streaming Media Faulkner Speech Technology Unisphere/DBTA
PRIVACY/COOKIES POLICY
Other ITI Websites
American Library Directory Boardwalk Empire Database Trends and Applications DestinationCRM Faulkner Information Services Fulltext Sources Online InfoToday Europe KMWorld Literary Market Place Plexus Publishing Smart Customer Service Speech Technology Streaming Media Streaming Media Europe Streaming Media Producer Unisphere Research



News & Events > NewsBreaks
 



Back Index Forward
Twitter RSS Feed
Weekly News Digest

March 21, 2023 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today. For other up-to-the-minute news, check out ITI’s Twitter account: @ITINewsBreaks.

CLICK HERE to view more Weekly News Digest items.

The Atlantic: The Future of ChatGPT and White-Collar Jobs

Annie Lowrey writes the following in “How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work” for The Atlantic (subscription required):

ChatGPT is just one of many mind-blowing generative AI tools released recently, including the image generators Midjourney and DALL-E and the video generator Synthesia. The upside of these AI tools is easy to see: They’re going to produce a tremendous amount of digital content, quickly and cheaply. …

Yet an extraordinary downside is also easy to see: What happens when services like ChatGPT start putting copywriters, journalists, customer-service agents, paralegals, coders, and digital marketers out of a job? For years, tech thinkers have been warning that flexible, creative AI will be a threat to white-collar employment, as robots replace skilled office workers whose jobs were once considered immune to automation. …

No single technology in modern memory has caused mass job loss among highly educated workers. Will generative AI really be an exception? No one can answer this question, given how new the technology is and given how slowly employment can adjust in response to technological change. But AI really is different, technology experts told me—a range of tasks that up until now were impossible to automate are becoming automatable.

For more information, read the article.



Send correspondence concerning the Weekly News Digest to NewsBreaks Editor Brandi Scardilli

Related Articles

3/7/2023The Latest Pew Research Center Reports From 2022 and 2023
1/17/2023Artificial Intelligence News Roundup
2/23/2023OpenAI Shares Road Map for ChatGPT Output
3/14/2023'Is ChatGPT the New iPhone in Terms of Technological Innovation?' by William Webb
3/28/2023ChatGPT News Roundup
3/30/2023Insider Weighs In on ChatGPT and White-Collar Jobs
3/30/2023U.K. Government Proposes Approach for Regulating AI
8/15/2023AI on the Library Shelf: How the Hollywood Strikes Exposed a Battle for the Creative Soul
8/31/2023Oyster Rolls Out AI-Powered Chatbot to Help Answer Hiring Questions


Comments Add A Comment

              Back to top