20 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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News Copycats

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"ChatGPT will often link to news publishers aggregating original reporting, elevating these copycat articles over the initial story, or failing to surface the initial story at all. Frequently these copycats are far less reputable, including blogs and websites that have outright plagiarized established news outlets. This copycat citation problem even plagues news publishers that have active licensing deals with OpenAI." - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

AI Definitions: Apache Spark

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Apache Spark - This data processing tool can be used on very large data sets. Its “cluster computing” uses resources from many computer processors linked together for rapid data processing and real-time analytics. Thus, it supports predictive analytics, a data science tool. For instance, it can analyze video or social media data automatically. It's a scalable solution so that users can easily introduce more processors into the system to make it more powerful.  

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Stress can do a body good

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Kelly McGonigal, a psychologist at Stanford University and the author of “The Upside of Stress”, helps people rethink stress by telling them that it is what we feel when something we care about is at stake. She asks them to make two lists: of things that stress them; and of things that matter to them. “People realise that if they eliminated all stress their lives would not have much meaning,” she says. “We need to give up the fantasy that you can have everything you want without stress.”

In 2012 a group of scientists in America looked back at the 1998 National Health Interview Survey, which included questions about how much stress the 30,000 participants had experienced in the previous year, and whether they believed stress harmed their health. Next, they pored over mortality records to find out which respondents had died. They found that those who both reported high stress and believed it was harming their health had a 43% higher risk of premature death. Those who reported high stress but did not believe it was hurting them were less likely to die early than those who reported little stress.

The study shows correlation, not causation. But since much stress is unavoidable, working out how to harness it may be wiser than fruitless attempts to banish it.

Read more in the Economist

22 Recent Articles about Using AI

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An AI Prompting Trick That Will Change Everything for You – Information Week

How to use Perplexity AI: Tutorial, pros and cons – Tech Target

What are the best AI tools for research? Nature’s guide - Nature

How DeepSeek’s Lower-Power, Less-Data Model Stacks Up – Wall Street Journal  

Adobe’s Sora-rivaling AI video generator is now available for everyone – The Verge

ChatGPT Search is now open to everyone — no account required – Tom’s Guide

ChatGPT's Deep Research is a promising intern - Axios 

I let ChatGPT’s new ‘agent’ manage my life – Washington Post

AI bots enter the group chat – Axio 

ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. DeepSeek: The Battle to Be My AI Work Assistant – Wall Street Journal 

How Helpful Is Operator, OpenAI’s New A.I. Agent? – New York Times

How DeepSeek and ChatGPT differed in our hands-on test - Axios

AI Mistakes Are Very Different From Human Mistakes – Spectrum  

How to use AI to keep your New Year's resolutions – Axios  

What Is Agentic AI, and How Will It Change Work? – Harvard Business Review

Google Unveils A.I. Agent That Can Use Websites on Its Own – New York Times

OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, aims to kickstart the AI video era – Washington Post

Why Are Women Less Likely to Use AI? – Bloomberg

The Many Ways WSJ Readers Use AI in Their Everyday Lives – Wall Street Journal

How To Create And Customize An AI Podcast With Google’s NotebookLM – Forbes

Using AI in PR: Experts explain how AI is enhancing PR workflows – Muck Rack

How to Get a New Headshot Using AI – CNET

AI Definitions: Algorithms

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Algorithms - Direct, specific instructions for computers created by a human through coding that tells the computer how to perform a task. Like a cooking recipe, this set of rules has a finite number of steps. More specifically, it is code that follows the algorithmic logic of “if”, “then”, and “else.” An example of an algorithm would be: IF the customer orders size 13 shoes, THEN display the message ‘Sold out, Sasquatch!’; ELSE ask for a color preference.     

Algorithms make one of two approaches:

1. Rule-based algorithms – direct, specific instructions are created by a human.  

2. Machine-learning algorithms – The data and goal is given to the algorithm, which works out for itself how to reach the goal. There is a popular perception that algorithms provide a more objective, more complete view of reality, but they often will simply reinforce existing inequities, reflecting the bias of creators and the materials used to train them.

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How to Grieve

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There are recovery programs for people grieving the loss of a parent, sibling, or spouse. You can buy books on how to cope with the death of a beloved pet or work through the anguish of a miscarriage. We speak openly with one another about the bereavement that can accompany a layoff, a move, a diagnosis, or a dream deferred. But no one really teaches you how to grieve the loss of your faith. You’re on your own for that.

Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday 

18 Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

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What are the best AI tools for research? Nature’s guide - Nature

Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Peer Review: Insights from Journal Reviewers – Springer

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’ – TechCrunch

AI-Generated Junk Science Is a Big Problem on Google Scholar, Research Suggests – Gizmodo 

What happens when you let ChatGPT assess impact case studies? – London School of Economics  

Generative AI in the research process – A survey of researchers’ practices and perceptions – Science Direct 

Springer Nature offers to sell authors “AI Summaries of Their Own Work” – Futurism

Teens Are Doing AI Research Now. Is That a Good Thing? - Chronicle of Higher Ed

How is content generated by ChatGPT infiltrating scientific papers published in premier journals? – Wiley

Elsevier denies AI use in response to evolution journal board resignations – Retraction Watch  

Springer Nature reveals AI-driven tool to 'automate some editorial quality checks' – The Bookseller 

Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers - ArsTechnica 

Generative artificial intelligence and academic writing: friend or foe? - Elsevier

Detecting Research Misconduct in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – The Scientist

Can AI-generated podcasts boost science engagement? – Nature

AI-Authored Abstracts ‘More Authentic’ Than Human-Written Ones – Inside Higher Ed

Scholars Are Supposed to Say When They Use AI. Do They? - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Will ChatGPT Get Tenure? - Leiden Vladtrice

Do You Know what an AI Cannot Do? Try this Multiple Choice Question

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If you write a prompt asking an AI to do each of these things, which would it be good at doing? 

a. Give me a cube root of a seven-digit number.

b. Write text backwards.

c. Give me a 5x12 animated GIF of green, falling Matrix letters in Python code.

d. I have a stack of Fiesta ware plates of these colors: green, yellow, orange, red, purple. Two slots below the purple one, I placed a yellow one, then one slot above the green one, I placed a black one. What is the final stack of plates?

e. Give me a list of 10 examples of something.  

Riley Goodside, lead prompt engineer for Scale AI gives the answer in a conversation with Semafor

What does she see in him?

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It happened years ago, but I've never forgotten it. I was singing and speaking at a small Midwestern college. During an informal seminar in one of the dorm lounges, a couple came in late.

I couldn't help noticing something odd about them. The girl was very attractive, close to cover-girl standards. The guy looked as if he had just walked off the set for The Nerds. He was short, wore thick horn-rimmed glasses and a plaid short-sleeved shirt. He was definitely a candidate for getting sand kicked in his face.

But the strangest thing of all was that these two were obviously in love. What could she possibly see in him? I asked myself. Suddenly I realized — she was blind.

But what did she see in him? Everything. Everything that's important about who a person is, what love is, and what a real man is. She saw everything she needed to know about him.

Blessed are the blind, for they can see people as they really are. Woe to those who can see, for they will constantly be tripped up by the image.

John Fischer

Expert Performance

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Expert performance is built through thousands of hours of practice in your area of expertise, in varying conditions, through which you accumulate a vast library of such mental models that enables you to correctly discern a given situation and instantaneously select and execute the correct response.

At the root of our effectiveness is our ability to grasp the world around us and to take the measure of our own performance. We are constantly making judgments about what we know and don't know whether we're capable of handling a task or solving a problem. As we work at something, we keep an eye on ourselves, adjusting our thinking or actions as we progress.

Monitoring your own thinking is what psychologists call metacognition (meta is Greek for "about".) Learning to be accurate self-observers helps us stay out of blind alleys, make good decisions, and reflect on how we might do better next time. An important part of this skill is being sensitive to the ways we can delude ourselves. One problem with poor judgment is that we usually don't know when we've got it. Another problem is the sheer scope of the ways our judgment can be led astray.

Peter C. Brown and Henry L. Roediger III, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

13 articles about how Companies are using AI

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The origins of our anger

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Problems of anger begin as seed thoughts of self-pity, discouragement, jealousy, or some other negative thought. One’s thought life is the key ingredient in behavioral and emotional control; therefore thoughts prior to and during times of anger are important. Thoughts give emotional feelings prolonged existence and strength, and lead interpretation to vague emotions.

When anger feelings begin, people should “listen” to themselves think. Their minds are constantly making value judgments, decisions, and comparisons. Therefore, there always exists the opportunity to intercept anger by changing these thoughts.

Gary Collins, Counseling and Anger