You Don't Think AI Could Do Your Job. What If You're Wrong?
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🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
ChatGPT made its public debut a little over a year ago. If you'd never thought much about AI before, you're probably thinking - and maybe worrying - about it now.
Jobs are an area that will almost certainly be impacted as AI develops. But whether artificial intelligence will free us from drudge work, or leave us unemployed depends on who you talk to.
Host Ari Shapiro speaks with NPR's Andrea Hsu on how people are adapting to AI in the workplace and ways to approach the technology with a plan instead of panic.
This episode also feature's reporting on AI and Hollywood background actors from NPR's Bobby Allyn.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe you saw this video. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Channel 1. |
| 0:12.0 | It dropped on social media this month and it looks like a pretty And it's |
| 0:15.0 | looks like a pretty standard TV news broadcast. |
| 0:17.0 | It's got dramatic footage, splashy animation, anchors with gravitas. |
| 0:21.0 | Military operations against Hamas by Israeli defense forces continue in Gaza. |
| 0:27.0 | There's just one important difference. |
| 0:29.0 | Let's start with our reporters. |
| 0:31.0 | You can hear us and see our lips moving but no one was recorded saying what we're all saying |
| 0:36.1 | Yeah Channel 1 is a startup that says it's going to use artificial intelligence to create TV news |
| 0:42.2 | The anchors and apparently a lot of what they're saying, would be AI generated. |
| 0:46.7 | The footage would be mostly real and the information would come from what they call trusted sources. |
| 0:52.2 | The company founders hoped to launch it in the spring, |
| 0:54.7 | which means all the speculation about AI coming for our jobs suddenly feels much more real. |
| 1:00.9 | At least to people like me, who make a living doing what these AI anchors are |
| 1:05.0 | apparently going to do, and to really rub it in, I can speak in any language. |
| 1:10.3 | I can speak in any language. Now it's impossible to know exactly what's going on behind the curtain, how close this |
| 1:17.5 | sizzle reel is to reality. But journalists are definitely not the only workers thinking about AI nipping at their heels. |
| 1:25.0 | NPR talked to Alexandria Rubicala earlier this year. |
| 1:29.0 | She's a full-time background actor in Los Angeles, and she said, |
| 1:32.0 | on a movie set not long ago the production crew had all the extras report to a trailer on set to get scanned. |
| 1:39.6 | Have your hands out, have your hands in, look this way, look that way. Let us see your scared |
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