Small businesses use AI 3.5x more than enterprises
Air Force AI chatbot lost job to better AI
Small businesses use AI 3.5x more than enterprises
Air Force AI chatbot lost job to better AI
Nvidia CEO says we shouldn’t talk badly about AI
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Small businesses use AI 3.5x more than enterprises
Bosses want to fill roles with human specialists, not AI, it turns out - as a new Monday study has uncovered mixed feelings about artificial intelligence in the workplace. For example, while 94% of directors use it at work, many leaders still feel judged for using AI tools. And that guilt is at its highest in enterprises, rather than Small & Medium Businesses, where it’s often perceived as a shortcut rather than a productivity tool. The reality is that the tech performs best as a productivity tool rather than a job replacer, allowing humans to take on higher-value and strategic work with the free time they’ve gained from handing over repetitive and administrative tasks to the computer.
Small businesses use AI 3.5x more per employee than enterprises, which are more likely to face siloed workflows and compliance hurdles, while marketing, tech and finance businesses may actually be underperforming with AI compared with construction and real estate workers. Then, there’s the overwhelm. Three in four (76%) directors regularly switch between multiple AI tools, with only 2% relying on one single tool.
However, while some hesitations still remain, the report does prove that AI is complementing human work rather than displacing workers. Most leaders aren’t actually adopting AI to reduce staff, and many are making changes to hire more AI-literate talent to pioneer this new human-machine collaborative style of working. With only around one-third (38%) of directors citing labor reduction as a motivator for adopting AI, Monday says AI-induced mass job losses are being challenged as a myth. “While concerns about AI-led job displacement haven’t disappeared, there is a different reality also unfolding in the workplace,” the report concludes....
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Air Force AI chatbot lost job to better AI
One of the big worries surrounding generative artificial intelligence is that it will put lots of humans out of work. But what if the same thing happened to AI tools? What if one AI took away another AI’s job?
That’s what appears to have happened to the Air Force’s popular NIPRGPT chatbot - short for Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. NIPRGPT was developed in-house by the Air Force Research Laboratory and was introduced in June 2024. The aim was to give Air Force personnel a way “to responsibly experiment with Generative AI, with adequate safeguards in place,” the Air Force said at the time. Air Force leaders said they launched the chatbot even though it hadn’t been perfected because military personnel “need advanced technologies at the speed of relevance.”
Like other Gen AI tools, NIPRGPT could answer questions and help with tasks such as research, writing memos and generating computer code. And it was popular. Within three months, more than 80,000 service members had taken it out for a ride. In all, more than 700,000 people across the Defense Department have used it. “Technology is learned by doing,” said Chandra Donelson, chief artificial intelligence officer for the U.S. Space Force, part of the Air Force.
Now, NIPRGPT’s time is up. It’s being shut down as of New Year’s Eve, the niche news site Defense Scoop reported. It is being replaced by the Pentagon’s new GenAI.mil system, which is intended for all branches of the armed forces - nearly 3 million users in all. That AI tool, described as vastly more powerful than NIPRGPT, will live on Google’s Gemini for Government environment, which was unveiled in August....
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Nvidia CEO says we shouldn’t talk badly about AI
Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, is calling out those who are critical of AI, believing that they don’t have the best interests of society as a whole in mind. More specifically, the criticisms that AI could make large portions of the workforce unemployed. Huang labelled this kind of opinion as the “doomer’s narrative”. He went on to claim that this kind of labelling does no good, and more importantly, believed that those pushing this narrative aren’t ordinary people.
“I think we’ve done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative. And I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it’s not helpful. It’s not helpful to people. It’s not helpful to the industry,” he said. “There are many people in the government who aren’t as comfortable with the technology and when PhDs and CEOs go to the government and describe these end-of-the-world scenarios and extremely dystopian futures, you have to ask what is the purpose of that narrative?”.
Most notably, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, has been widely critical of AI, despite developing Claude, one of the best-known chatbots on the market right now. In the past, Amodei has highlighted the role AI plays in unemployment, stating last year that it would cause mass unemployment within the next five years….