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It would be fair to say that the Goldman Sachs report that AI would replace 300 million full time jobs ......put the cat among the pigeons. 

White collar jobs decimated. Accountants/legal offices/data analysts/programmers/teachers/......the list goes on and on. 

That is a lot of angry people who vote. 

 

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-jobs-at-risk-replacement-artificial-intelligence-ai-labor-trends-2023-02#graphic-designers-8

EU lawmakers take first step towards AI curbs

EU lawmakers take first step towards AI curbs

 
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May 11, 2023 - 10:44PM
AFP
The emergence of ChatGPT, Midjourney and other AI applications have greatly focused the parliament's attention

The emergence of ChatGPT, Midjourney and other AI applications have greatly focused the parliament's attention

European Parliament lawmakers on Thursday took a crucial first step towards EU-wide regulation of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems that Brussels hopes to put speedily in place.

Parliamentary committees on civil liberties and consumer protection overwhelmingly voted for a position text calling for curbs on how AI can be used in Europe, while still fostering innovation in the sector.

The text is to be put to the full parliament next month for adoption before negotiations with EU member states on a final law.

Lawmakers called Thursday's vote "historic" and hoped it would lead to "the world's first rules on artificial intelligence".

Their text picks up the main lines from a European Commission proposal made two years ago, but suggests adding bans on biometric surveillance, emotion recognition and predictive policing AI systems.

It seeks to put generative AI systems such as ChatGPT and Midjourney in a category requiring special transparency measures, such as notifications to users that the output was made by a machine, not a human.

The parliament's text also seeks additional criteria as to what constitutes a "high-risk" AI area of application, which could reduce the scope of that designation.

The commission proposed list covers AI in critical infrastructure, education, human resources, public order and migration management.

But the MEPs want an additional threshold to be met, requiring that threats to safety, health or fundamental rights are also deemed to be in play. 

- Companies see innovation threat -

The CCIA, a European industry lobby group representing major tech companies, said that, while "the parliament made some useful improvements to the text", it was "abandoning the risk-based structure" of the European Commission's proposal.

"The best way for the EU to inspire other jurisdictions is by ensuring that new regulation will enable, rather than inhibit, the development of useful AI applications," said CCIA policy manager for Europe, Boniface de Champris.

The European Consumer Organisation though endorsed the parliament injecting "beefed-up protections for consumers" in its text compared to the commission one.

"Although AI may improve our lives in many ways, there are well-founded concerns that AI systems can also harm consumers. People must be properly protected against the risks of these new technologies," said Ursula Pachl, deputy director of the organisation.

While EU work towards legislation has been going on for some time, the potential -- and potential perils -- of AI has exploded into the public consciousness only in the last few months, since ChatGPT burst onto the scene at the end of last year.

Image-generation AI such as Midjourney and DALL-E have since sparked an online rush to make lookalike Van Goghs or a pope in a high fashion puffer jacket, while AI music sites have impressed with their ability to produce human-like singing.

"It's enough to turn on the TV since the last two, three months, almost every day, to see how important this file is becoming for citizens," said one of the lead MEPs on the European Parliament text, Drago Tudorache.

Policymakers in Europe and other regions in the world are increasingly concerned how the technology can be used for fakery, to fool people and sway public opinion and elections.

That has spurred Elon Musk and some researchers to urge a moratorium until legal frameworks can catch up.

In the commission proposal, AI companies would be required to maintain human control over their algorithms, provide technical documentation and have a risk-management system for "high-risk" applications.

Each EU member state would have a supervising authority to make sure the rules are abided by. 

MEPs also want AI companies to put in place protections against illegal content and on copyrighted works that might be used to train their algorithms.

They also want to prevent the scraping of photos posted on the internet for training algorithms unless the authorisation of the people concerned is obtained.

 

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I was at a digital marketing lecture tonight where we all created original, meaningful content using AI, then put that content through another AI language editor that required a little, very little, human editing. This content will create meaningful questions and answers to any one, two or three word (or more) input. The really interesting part was that it could create meaningful questions on the subject. One of the tools used was a site that found the top 10 (20, 50 whatever) most commonly searched-for questions online about the subject. Geographic, demographic and pyschographic (new to me too but makes sense) filters could be used.

"Back pain", was one example used. The tools found the most frequently asked online questions about back pain and created answers for them, metatags for website content, ranked for SEO, everything. These answers were edited, in minutes, to the point where no "TurnItIn" or similar AI or plagiarism detection tool would recognise it as not being original. This took less than 10 minutes. None of us knew very much about back pain 10 minutes prior.

We're not far away at all from students creating perfect, undetectable, essays in any medical or engineering discipline (for example), while knowing basically nothing about the subject.

This is where at least some of the concern is. The EU and every dog in the street is well aware that the genie is already out of the bottle when it comes to enormous upheaval in the job market. Nothing can be done about that. Just as we're already too late to start throwing sewing machines into the street and breaking up looms. People were worried about those job losses too.

I think what the EU is saying is that we're not quite ready for our robot overlords.

Every business in the EU (or business with EU customers) worried about GDPR when it was proposed, "we can't do business this way", "the overheads will kill us", "jobs will be lost" etc.

Now that it is in place, while for almost every business it has been and is a pain in the a**e implementing it, the vast majority recognise it is there for good reason (protecting people's rights to privacy), many businesses have gone on to find useful applications for it. And GDPR has created thousands of jobs and opportunities.

Change is the only certainty.

 

 

 

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I had lunch today with an old programming friend, ex Google and Linkedin Exec San Fran. 

20+ years in the industry and he is blown away with what he is able to to with AI over the past 4 months. In his words, from a programming perspective, his first 15 years is now irrelevant.  Hold onto your hats people. 

Those who can harness/enhance the tech will do very well. Pivot is the key. 

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