AI won't take your job. But it will transform it and create new ones. This NYT article has quotes from economists who specialize in the effect of technology on labor markets, such David Autor, Daron Acemoglu, and @erikbryn : "Everybody I talk to, supersmart people, doctors, lawyers, C.E.O.s, other economists, your brain just first goes to, ‘Oh, how can generative A.I. replace this thing that humans are doing?’” said Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. But that’s not the only option, he said. “The other thing that I wish people would do more of is think about what new things could be done now that was never done before. Obviously that’s a much harder question.” It is also, he added, “where most of the value is." @davidautor : "60 percent of current occupational specialties did not exist 80 years ago." "The Optimist’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Work" nyti.ms/3BJIfgU?smid=nytcore…

Has Google taken yet another plummet in usability today or is it just me?

Paris 2015 vs Paris 2022 Avant, Voie express Georges Pompidou Après, Parc Rives de Seine

It's always nice to be able to be up and look at the previous days Arxiv papers early.

After 10 rewrites since being stuck on the first 400mb and a bunch of ChatGPT back and forth, I'm still not conceding on a laptop, colab cpu instance and pandas being a viable way to tackle proccessing 7Tb of postgreSQL dumps into an accessible format 😅

okay I'm walking down by the tracks I'm going to try to explain this and not get attacked by dogs x.com/deepfates/status/16054…

Any jobs that require mediocre essays can now, *in real life*, be done with ChatGPT assistance! Students who use ChatGPT to generate essays are *realistically* showing they can handle the mediocre-essay-writing jobs for which modern universities are vigorously training them.

SciNLP papers of the day...

Homo homini lupus

Yes, see this article by @AudraLMitchell and @ThylacineReport:

Sulav Khadka arrived in the UK with a place to study at university, a valid visa and proof he had paid his first year fees in full. But he was detained at the border, accused of being a fake student, and held in custody for 12 days. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…

Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others

World leaders preparing for COP27

World Leaders getting ready for COP27

A historic failure

The biggest threat to prime farmland in the UK is not solar farms, it's climate change theguardian.com/environment/…

Maybe from a list of radical, seemingly outlandish solutions and abatement methods for climate change we can come to a better understanding of whats possible through technological synergies.