Is A.I. Actually a Bubble? The narrative of boom and bust is familiar--but also out of step with the possibilities of a new technology. Over the past few months, I've introduced artificial intelligence into the hobby life of my seven-year-old son, Peter. On Saturdays, he takes a coding class, in which he recently made a version of rock-paper-scissors, and he really wants to make more sophisticated games at home. I gave ChatGPT and Claude a sense of his skill level, and they instantaneously suggested next steps. Claude proposed trying to recreate Pong in Scratch, a coding environment for kids.

Bonus: If you're an subscriber, you can join David and Richard, alongside's editor in chief, Mat Honan, for an exclusive conversation live on Tuesday, December 9 at 1pm ET about this topic. Sign up to be a part here . Any far-reaching new technology is always uneven in its adoption, but few have been more uneven than generative AI. That makes it hard to assess its likely impact on individual businesses, let alone on productivity across the economy as a whole. At one extreme, AI coding assistants have revolutionized the work of software developers. Mark Zuckerberg recently predicted that half of Meta's code would be written by AI within a year.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. UC registered nurses ratify contract that guarantees a minimum 18.5% increase in pay Rosemarie Bower, a registered nurse, prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at UC Irvine Medical Center in 2020. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . University of California registered nurses won a new contract with a minimum 18.5% increase in pay covering 25,000 workers across 19 facilities through 2029.

Taking the time to make a use case for AI will propel companies further and improve the return on investment in this fast-changing technology. The market is officially three years post ChatGPT and many of the pundit bylines have shifted to using terms like "bubble" to suggest reasons behind generative AI not realizing material returns outside a handful of technology suppliers. In September, the MIT NANDA report made waves because the soundbite every author and influencer picked up on was that 95% of all AI pilots failed to scale or deliver clear and measurable ROI. McKinsey earlier published a similar trend indicating that agentic AI would be the way forward to achieve huge operational benefits for enterprises. At's Technology Council Summit, AI technology leaders recommended CIOs stop worrying about AI's return on investment because measuring gains is difficult and if they were to try, the measurements would be wrong. This places technology leaders in a precarious position-robust tech stacks already sustain their business operations, so what is the upside to introducing new technology?

Should We Look on New Technologies with Awe and Dread? The technological sublime helps us grasp the power of what we're creating--but at a cost. One of the most famous cuts in cinema history, from "2001: A Space Odyssey," perfectly captures a concept known as the technological sublime. First, we see an angry ape bludgeoning one of his fellows to death with a scavenged bone; he's only just discovered that bones can be used this way, and he hurls his weapon into the air in celebration. We follow the bone upward as it tumbles against the unpolluted blue sky.

'AI already appears to be squeezing the number of entry-level jobs in white-collar occupations.' 'AI already appears to be squeezing the number of entry-level jobs in white-collar occupations.' I n The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original anti-tech movement. The early 19th-century croppers and weavers who rebelled against new technologies should not be written off as "blindly resisting machinery", wrote Thompson in his classic history . They were opposing a laissez-faire logic that dismissed its disastrous impact on their lives. Photographers, coders and writers, for example, would sympathise with the powerlessness felt by working people who saw customary protections swept away in a search for enhanced productivity and profit.

Australia's forthcoming Aukus nuclear-powered submarines have been called the'apex predator of the oceans'. Australia's forthcoming Aukus nuclear-powered submarines have been called the'apex predator of the oceans'. Quantum sensing, satellite tracking and AI are part of an accelerating arms race in detection that should prompt a re-evaluation of Australia's defence strategy Military history is littered with the corpses of apex predators. All once possessed unassailable power - then were undermined, in some cases wiped out, by the march of new technology. " Speed and stealth and firepower," the head of the Australian Submarine Agency, Jonathan Mead, told the Guardian two years ago of Australia's forthcoming fleet of nuclear submarines.

Half of adults in the UK are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence on their job, according to a poll, as union leaders call for a "step change" in the country's approach to new technologies. Job losses or changes to terms and conditions were the biggest worries for the 51% of 2,600 adults surveyed for the Trades Union Congress who said they were concerned about the technology. AI is a particular concern for workers aged between 25 and 34, with nearly two-thirds (62%) of those surveyed reporting such worries. The TUC poll was released as a string of large employers – including BT, Amazon, and Microsoft – have said in recent months that advances in AI could lead them to cut jobs. Britain's job market is slowing amid a cooling economy, with the UK's official jobless rate at a four-year high of 4.7%, although most economists do not believe this is linked to an acceleration in investment in AI.

The spark becomes a flame, and within seconds, a satellite dish swirling overhead picks up on the anomaly and triggers an alarm. An autonomous helicopter takes flight and zooms toward the fire, using sensors to locate the blaze and artificial intelligence to generate a plan of attack. It measures the wind speed and fire movement, communicating constantly with the unmanned helicopter behind it, and the one behind that. Los Angeles knows how to weather a crisis -- or two or three. Angelenos are tapping into that resilience, striving to build a city for everyone.

Growing up as a teenager in the 80's, I witnessed the birth and rise of personal computers firsthand. The Commodore 64 was the first computer to enter our home, and apart from the myriad games we played endlessly, it also made me experiment with BASIC (and basic) programming. Despite my early engagement with computing, at school I was more interested in languages and media (I also wasn't strong enough in maths). So, when it was time to go to university, I chose to study communication sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. During my studies, my interest in computers never faded, especially as it coincided with the rise of the Internet and the start of the World Wide Web--an evolution I eagerly followed.