Generative AI: What is it and is it coming for your job?

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AI is all the rage right now, and this time around, things are a little different. We have played around a good amount with the latest technologies and “impressed” isn’t even a good word to use: our jaw has dropped to the ground many times.

So, let’s enjoy this multi-episode special and start today by explaining what it does.

Imagine a librarian with access to the internet: But she is also the smartest person on earth, with a photographic memory. She reads everything there is, with no exception, and can recite any facts you ask her. She was even banned from Jeopardy because she couldn’t lose.

That basically describes Google, a company that has mapped the world’s digital data and makes it accessible via search.

There is one problem though: It can’t think. And so one article contradicting another one online doesn’t raise an eyebrow - they just both show up.

AIs have gotten increasingly better at closing that gap. The most popular one, ChatGPT, can actually make logical connections and produce its own documents from that - this is called generative AI.

The kicker - with so much information, and the insane computer power and data storage we have today, it has kind of broken free: You can ask it to program computer code for you, write essays, come up with business plans that have never existed before.

And this is probably really bad news for us - no matter what your job is, if it involves a desk, it can at least help.

But should we fear it coming for our jobs entirely? Well - that’s today’s cliffhanger! We’ll see you again tomorrow to dive into that question in the next episode of Crypto in Plain English.

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