Is Google disrupting itself?

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Hello and welcome back to another big day in AI. Elon launches an OpenAI competitor, and Google is working on a new search engine to disrupt…itself?

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 🧠 Insight: Why people shouldn't freak out about losing their jobs to AI

⚡ 3 AI tools to supercharge your productivity

🤖 News: Elon’s X and Google’s new search engine

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🧠 Insight: Why people shouldn't freak out about losing their jobs to AI

"We've been deploying automation technology for centuries, and as of 2023, pretty much every human who wants a job has a job, but there's basically no way to get people to believe that this next wave of automation will be the one that finally sends humans into obsolescence."

Popular economics writer Noah Smith argues that automation is likely to lead to more job creation than job replacement, as was the case with all previous waves of automation. Smith contends that every few years we get a scare in the mainstream media about automation replacing jobs, but none of these predictions have come to pass yet.

Read more about it here → (read time: 5 minutes)

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🤖 Must-know things happening in AI

1. Google is working on a new AI search engine under the title ‘Project Magi’ according to reports. With 160 engineers on board, Google is creating a search engine similar to ChatGPT. This search engine will display 10 results per page and provide instant answers replacing the traditional search method.

   Read more about it here →

2. Elon Musk is launching a new artificial intelligence company called X.AI to rival ChatGPT. Musk has been rumoured to start an AI company for some time now and has reportedly purchased 10,000 GPUs to power an upcoming generative AI product.

   Read more about it here → (paywalled)

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