The Surprising Reason AI Won't Steal Your Job

Plus an AI Biden robocall in New Hampshire

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Nathaniel Whittemore
January 23, 2024

The AI Breakdown First Five - Tuesday January 23, 2024

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. OpenAI Suspends Developer Who Made Dean Phillips Bot

  • 4. Leaked Google Memo Reveals Big Goals for 2024

  • 3. Elon Says Secret GPU Cluster Being Built in Kuwait + Grok 1.5 Coming

  • 2. AI Biden Robocall in New Hampshire

  • 1. AI Too Expensive to Steal Your Job, MIT Study Says

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5. OpenAI Suspends Developer Who Made Dean Phillips Bot

As every AI company updates its policies and TOS for the election season, enforcement actions are beginning as well. OpenAI has suspended a developer around their creation of a bot supporting long-shot Democrat hopeful Dean Phillips.

4. Leaked Google Memo Reveals Big Goals for 2024

File this under “not really surprising at all.” Google’s companywide memo about its 2024 goals has AI at the very top. Specifically “Deliver the world’s most advanced, safe, and responsible AI.” The world is watching le Goog!

3. Elon Says Secret GPU Cluster Being Built in Kuwait + Grok 1.5 Coming

In an interview with X-Prize creator Peter Diamandis, Elon says that a secret gigawatt-class GPU cluster is being built in Kuwait. He also commented on a Jordan Peterson post on X, saying Grok 1.5 is coming soon.

2. AI Biden Robocall in New Hampshire

The AI election issues have officially begun! An AI Biden has been calling New Hampshire voters telling them to skip the primary. Many expect this is just the beginning of a surge of deepfakes.

1. AI Too Expensive to Steal Your Job, MIT Study Says

A new study from MIT dove in to try to understand how cost-effective it was to automate certain types of computer vision tasks. At least for the moment, the study found that only around 23% of tasks would be worth automating from a cost standpoint.

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