Around the world, ChatGPT and its generative AI-powered counterparts are sparking curiosity about the future of work. Optimists predict that these artificial intelligence tools will manage menial parts of our jobs, like data entry and bookkeeping, and leave workers with more time to tackle more sophisticated projects. Others are less bullish: Last month, hundreds of
Large language models are a type of artificial intelligence currently taking the world by storm. They include OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and various others. All are trained on vast databases of written articles in which they measure the likelihood of a word appearing, given the sequence of words that appear before it. Armed with that
From steam power and electricity to computers and the internet, technological advancements have always disrupted labor markets, pushing out some careers while creating others. Artificial intelligence remains something of a misnomer — the smartest computer systems still don’t actually know anything — but the technology has reached an inflection point where it’s poised to affect