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Rise of the Chief AI Officer, Spotify plans to read your mind, and analog CEOs in a digital age

AI for Pros: Navigating the Ever-Evolving Landscape of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Employment

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Malcolm Frank, CEO
April 15, 2024

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This Week’s Highlights

Here’s some of the best of what we discovered this week:

The rise of the Chief AI Officer

It’s a cool and increasingly popular title.  But what do these people actually do?

Aaron Levie on AI and jobs

A must-read post from Box’s CEO, bringing a fuller context to the AI VS Jobs debate.

Larry Fink envisions trillions to be spent on AI infrastructure

“We will run out of electricity if we are going to adapt to a full AI world” notes Blackrock’s CEO.

The worst part of a Wall Street career may be coming to an end

AI tools are replacing much of entry level work in finance.  If the bottom rungs of the ladder are removed, how do fresh graduates start their careers?

How AI is changing the game for freelancers

“AI is now giving contractors a home-field advantage” says TalentGenius CEO Malcolm Frank in Forbes.

Tool of the Week: Indexical

Streamline web scraping with natural language processing

Just the right song at the right time

How Spotify plans to know what’s going on inside your head.

Your “AI-first” company is giving me fatigue

“We are officially reaching the phase in the tech cycle where a new technology goes from truly wondrous to truly annoying.”

To that end, how aggressively should a bank pursue AI?

The digital services provider is shedding 800 roles.

“An analog CEO in a digital age.”

A third of CEOs admit they don’t have the digital knowledge to take their company to the next stage of growth, and 43% believe AI could replace them. 

Georgia Tech unveils impressive AI Makerspace

“...it would take a single NVIDIA H100 GPU one second to come up with a multiplication operation that would take Georgia Tech’s 50,000 students 22 years to achieve.”  (We presume this is more of a reflection on the power of NVIDIA’s GPUs than the capability of Georgia Tech students.)

And one more thing…

Udio makes its long-awaited public launch

Create your own songs on the fly.  Give it a whirl (but don’t blame us if you waste hours making songs for friends and family).

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