But amid rapid advances in artificial intelligence and President Trump's targeting of federal agencies, which disproportionately support white-collar jobs, some wonder if a permanent decline for knowledge work has begun. "We're seeing a meaningful transition in the way work is done in the white-collar world," said Carl Tannenbaum, the chief economist of Northern Trust. "I tell people a wave is coming." To date, few industries epitomize the shift of the last few years better than the making of video games, which began a boom in 2020 as couch-bound Americans sought out new forms of home entertainment. The industry hired aggressively before reversing course and embarking on a period of layoffs.

Many laypeople are motivated to improve the health behavior of their family or friends but do not know where to start, especially if the health behavior is potentially stigmatizing or controversial. We present an approach that uses virtual agents to coach community-based volunteers in health counseling techniques, such as motivational interviewing, and allows them to practice these skills in role-playing scenarios. We use this approach in a virtual agent-based system to increase COVID-19 vaccination by empowering users to influence their social network. In a between-subjects comparative design study, we test the effects of agent system interactivity and role-playing functionality on counseling outcomes, with participants evaluated by standardized patients and objective judges. We find that all versions are effective at producing peer counselors who score adequately on a standardized measure of counseling competence, and that participants were significantly more satisfied with interactive virtual agents compared to passive viewing of the training material. We discuss design implications for interpersonal skills training systems based on our findings.

The dynamics of human-AI communication have been reshaped by language models such as ChatGPT. However, extant research has primarily focused on dyadic communication, leaving much to be explored regarding the dynamics of human-AI communication in group settings. The availability of multiple language model chatbots presents a unique opportunity for scholars to better understand the interaction between humans and multiple chatbots. This study examines the impact of multi-chatbot communication in a specific persuasion setting: promoting charitable donations. We developed an online environment that enables multi-chatbot communication and conducted a pilot experiment utilizing two GPT-based chatbots, Save the Children and UNICEF chatbots, to promote charitable donations. In this study, we present our development process of the multi-chatbot interface and present preliminary findings from a pilot experiment. Analysis of qualitative and quantitative feedback are presented, and limitations are addressed.

One unlikely day during the empty-belly years of the Great Depression, an advertisement appeared in the smeared, smashed-ant font of the New York Times' classifieds: Five hundred college graduates, male, to perform secretarial work of a pleasing nature. Thousands of desperate, out-of-work bachelors of arts applied; five hundred were hired ("they were mainly plodders, good men, but not brilliant"). They went to work for a mysterious Elon Musk-like millionaire who was devising "a new plan of universal knowledge." In a remote manor in Pennsylvania, each man read three hundred books a year, after which the books were burned to heat the manor. At the end of five years, the men, having collectively read three-quarters of a million books, were each to receive fifty thousand dollars.

We have been worried about artificial intelligence (AI) and other kinds of robots taking over our jobs for quite some time now. Techno paranoia is by no means a new phenomenon, and it manifests itself in a wide range of ways including situations where people will be concerned about the impact that automation might have on their careers. With the new year right around the corner, what are the chances that AI might make you unemployed in 2022? People's opinions on this are quite varied. The group that is perhaps most fearful of losing their jobs to an AI based program is that of college graduates.

In order to understand the motivation behind regression, let's consider the following simple example. The scatter plot below shows the number of college graduates in the US from the year 2001 to 2012. Now based on the available data, what if someone asks you how many college graduates with master's degrees will there be in the year 2018? It can be seen that the number of college graduates with master's degrees increases almost linearly with the year. So by simple visual analysis, we can get a rough estimate of that number to be between 2.0 to 2.1 million.

There seems to be a noticeable trend on Wall Street: Most financial services professionals share similar demographics. Recruiting startup Suited plans to break the stigma with artificial intelligence technology – targeting the diversification of the industry. Suited co-founder and CEO Matthew Spencer told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo on Thursday how Suited matches diverse job candidates with appropriate roles. "Suited opens access to early-career job opportunities in the financial professional services sector to a wider range of candidates," Spencer said. "Leveraging technology enables firms to consider those candidates more efficiently, effectively and equitably."

A newly launched think tank researching policies for accepting more foreign workers said Monday that as a condition for new visa statuses currently being discussed in the Diet, the government should require prospective applicants to have a college degree. The Research Institute for Embracement of Global Human Resources said Japan is still an attractive destination for college graduates in emerging countries, even for blue-collar jobs. People with lower educational and economic backgrounds in such nations tend to be slower to learn Japanese, and their overall level of Japanese language skills tends to be poorer than that of college graduates, said Yohei Shibasaki, who heads the think tank that was established last week. "This could isolate them from the community and create areas" in which they seek out only people of the same nationality, causing trouble with other communities, Shibasaki said during a news conference in Tokyo. Last Friday Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approved a bill that will allow foreign individuals to work in blue-collar industries for an indefinite amount of time if they meet certain conditions.

Americans don't fear artificial intelligence as much as is commonly believed, a new study by Gallup and Northeastern University has found. Officials at Northeastern say that it shows higher education should be more involved in training people for the artificial intelligence world. In a survey of 3,297 adults, about three-quarters said artificial intelligence has and will continue to have a fundamental, but also positive, effect on their lives. Among blue-collar workers, that number dipped to 68 percent. But nearly three-quarters of participants (and 82 percent of blue-collar workers) admitted the revolution will take more jobs than it creates.

New Delhi [India], Dec 7 (ANI-NewsVoir): Excerpts from the section of Future Jobs: Future Skills from India Skills Report 2018 shows 46 percent of college graduates find Artificial intelligence as the next generation technology where technology leaders are drumming up the thought that the emergence of new technology such as AI and Robotics are going to be the new drivers of employment. Over 36 percent consider 3D and Bio Printing where 21 percent consider Agricultural Robots and only seven percent consider Augmented Reality as next gen technology for employment. The section on Future Jobs also finds that more than 52 percent candidates consider Agricultural Technologies followed by 25 percent consider Healthcare technologies to be the focus for companies for technology adoption where Transport and Military Technologies were considered 12 and 11 percent respectively where future jobs will arrive. Recently All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has revised the curriculum for the four year undergraduate program. Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Internet of things are mandatory induction program from academic year 2018-19 to prepare future engineers more employable.