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Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years -- but that's a good thing, says US-Brazilian researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru.
Mathematician, cognitive scientist and famed robot-creator Goertzel, 56, is founder and chief executive of SingularityNET, a research group he launched to create "Artificial General Intelligence," or AGI -- artificial intelligence with human cognitive abilities. READ MORE
All signs were pointing to a cooling labor market. Instead, the latest jobs report showed the unemployment rate fell to 3.4% in April after 253,000 jobs were added last month.
But hiring isn’t strong across the board, and is concentrated in a handful of industries. READ MORE
Picture this: You’re the CEO of a midsize company, and you just returned from an expensive, multi-day strategy retreat with your entire management team. You spent hours discussing the ins and outs of your strategy, and it left you and your employees feeling more aligned than ever. But are you actually on the same page?
Our new study suggests that you might not be — and that this sort of strategic misalignment is both more common and more harmful than you might think. READ MORE
After three months of sweeping layoffs, is the tech industry’s blaze of job cuts finally cooling?
Between January and March, largely U.S.-based tech companies managed to lay off more people than they did in the entirety of last year. There was a reprieve in April, as only around 6,330 employees were cut from the tech sector. READ MORE
It wasn't the conversation the Amazon Web Services employee was expecting to have with her new manager.
The employee, a tech-industry veteran, had been at the cloud company for more than a year. She'd received consistently positive feedback from her prior boss, who'd told her she was on track for a promotion. READ MORE
When Carrie Kissell learned that her employer, Airbnb, was letting people live and work anywhere, she was on a sailboat off the coast of Key Biscayne, enjoying some time off with her partner.
The thought came to her: Why not just stay on the boat?
"It was this opportunity I couldn't not take," says Kissell, an internal events planner formerly based in San Francisco. READ MORE
Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced at a rapid pace recently and several of the biggest names in the tech sector have launched new tools to help customers and client leverage the technology in a variety of ways.
AI-powered chatbots, cloud services and tools for web developers are among the tools that are quickly becoming staple offerings of tech companies. Major U.S. tech firms – including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft – have each rolled out AI initiatives or have some in the works, although Apple has been notably quiet in announcing any big AI moves to date. READ MORE
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat seeking re-election in a state that has trended red in recent elections, urged young residents in the Buckeye State to take up trade jobs and insisted they "don't need a college degree" after previously signaling support for loan debt forgiveness.
"I make a plea to every young Ohioan I meet — consider a career in the building trades. Apprenticeship programs, good pay & benefits, and you don’t need a college degree," Brown wrote in a Saturday tweet, which was accompanied by a video message from the senator. READ MORE
The buzzy new social media app of the moment looks so much like Twitter it’s almost hard to distinguish the two. The profiles, timelines and colors are nearly identical. Even the creator is the same.
But under the hood, Bluesky, developed by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, is vastly different.
The app, which launched in a closed beta on iOS in February and on Android this month, runs on a decentralized network which provides users with more control over how the service is run, data is stored, and content is moderated. READ MORE
Two brothers who drive for Uber recently conducted an experiment. They opened their Uber apps while sitting in the same room, and tested which brother could earn more money to do the same work.
In a video published on The Rideshare Guy YouTube channel, the brothers recorded themselves looking for rides on the app. They found that Uber showed them nearly identical jobs, but offered to pay one of them a little better. The siblings could only guess why. Had Uber's algorithm somehow calculated their worth differently? READ MORE
There are two types of people in the world: Those who spring up when their morning alarm goes off ready to pounce on the day ahead, and those who begrudgingly get out of bed and only start to feel alive as the sun sets. READ MORE
Just like parents, bosses have their (not so) secret favorites. And when it comes to being managers’ pet, the most junior employees in the office are not often selected. Nearly three-fourths of managers find Gen Z to be the most difficult to work with, according to a Resume Builder survey of 1,300-plus managers and business leaders. READ MORE
A month ago, code blue sirens went off at banks across the globe after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. As banks work to put that painful episode in the rear view mirror, it’s unclear if the situation has stabilized or if it’s the calm before another storm.
More details will come on Friday, when the Federal Reserve is set to release the findings of its investigation into what led to SVB’s collapse. READ MORE
Bed, Bath & Beyond made plenty of mistakes that led to this week’s bankruptcy filing. Among the most consequential was the $11.8 billion it has spent since 2004 to buy back its own shares.
The company’s repurchase program wasn’t unique. But for a cash-starved business that announced it would likely be forced to close all of its stores if it couldn’t find an 11th-hour savior to buy it, the money could have been better spent. Instead, it fueled a desperate and ultimately failed effort to support its stock price. READ MORE
Fifty-five percent of Americans are worried by the threat of AI to the future of humanity, according to a recent Monmouth University poll. More than 1,000 AI experts and funders, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, signed a letter calling for a six-month pause in training new AI models. In turn, Time published an article calling for a permanent global ban.
However, the problem with these proposals is that they require coordination of numerous stakeholders from a wide variety of companies and government figures. Let me share a more modest proposal that’s much more in line with our existing methods of reining in potentially threatening developments: legal liability. READ MORE
AST SpaceMobile announced Tuesday that it made the first-ever space-based voice call to a standard smartphone.
The two-way voice calls were completed directly to everyday unmodified smartphones using the BlueWalker 3, or BW3, satellite.
Engineers from Vodafone, Rakuten and AT&T participated in the preparation and testing. READ MORE
The comment period for the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements came to a close last week, bringing with it more than 18,000 comments from individuals, associations and businesses.
First set to end March 20, the FTC extended the public comment period 30 days to April 19 after receiving requests for more time to weigh in. READ MORE
AI is probably going to affect your job. We just don’t yet know when or how much — or how to feel about it exactly.
Most Americans agree that AI will have a major impact on workers in the next 20 years, and they’re more likely to say it will hurt more than help, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. But at the same time, most Americans think AI will have little or no impact on them personally. READ MORE
Clearlink CEO James Clarke told employees that many remote workers have "quietly quit" and become so brazen that dozens at his company "didn't even open" their laptops for a month, according to a video posted by Vice.
Clarke, who founded the marketing and tech company based in Utah, made the remarks this month while addressing the company's return-to-office mandate, Vice first reported. The company has asked most of its employees in Utah to work from the office four days a week, a Clearlink representative confirmed to Insider. READ MORE
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to revolutionize workflows and automate aspects of many jobs, but not all professions will be impacted in the near term, according to a recent report.
Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are technologies that have received a lot of attention lately. Both use algorithms to take existing, human-created content, like text, images, audio and video, to create new content and analyze vast quantities of data. READ MORE