Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.
hard discussions about where people should live and whether they shouldn t be living in places that are going to see potentially a 7 foot increase in sea levels by the end of the century? the reason why we were so eager to get this report out, first of all, is because of the accuracy and the utility of the report. but because now is the time to start planning. now is the time to start making changes to code, to building code, now is the time to start making investments. and we have to plan in order to make these bits of information and this knowledge work most effectively. failing to plan is planning to fail when you get right down to it. so to the extent we can provide the tools to help with that planning, this is why we re so eager to get this in the hands of the american public. we appreciate it. we always like when real data comes out that people can use, they can interpret it and do something with it. we appreciate that. we hope this is the first of many conversations with you
that kind of career skepticism is really fascinating, because i think that, you know, speaking as a millennial, that s not something that, you know, my generation has done as much of. no, it is not something that our generation has done as much of. and i have to tell you, your book sent me into a tailspin, because you ask an existential question, which is, what would your life be, what would your life look like if work weren t the central axis along which it was organized. and i want to be clear here that, you know, we re talking about knowledge work. some of the, you know, clips you showed earlier are people, you know, maybe in the service sector who are doing, you know, working on the front lines and, you know, have much more can t do their jobs from home. that is sort of a different conversation. it is a part of this, but a different conversation. but in terms of knowledge workers, i think that there is this, you know, we have especially millennials been stuck in this idea