A Combination of AI and Youth Is Changing the Workforce
Between the advent of Covid-19 and ChatGPT, an entirely new era has begun.
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The times, sang Bob Dylan, they are a-changin’. And in the time between the advent of Covid-19 and ChatGPT, an entirely new era has begun — the amazing age of artificial intelligence.
Debate rages about whether “full sentience” — or whether AI can ever feel like a human — will be reached. Already in a trial, participants guessed correctly just 60% of the time on whether they were talking to a person or robot in an online chat. It’s becoming harder and harder to separate not just human from machine but humans from their machines. Are you, for instance, ever not within arm’s reach of your smartphone? Does your car now start with an app? Are your books, groceries, documents, communications all done via the interface of something rather than someone?