According to this new report, AI will be employed in everyone’s jobs, including scientists and doctors.
Sam Altman and other prominent AI figures have been talking about agent AI for the past few months. There are fears that so-called super-artificial intelligence is on the horizon and will wreak havoc on the labor market in the coming years, or if you want to believe the biggest hype, within the next few months. Perhaps the biggest concern is that governments and society in general are not yet prepared to deal with the potential fallout.
A new report from Axios suggests that the final (inevitable?) reality described above may be closer than some think.
Axios, which follows the likes of Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Salesforce’s CEO in explaining plans to cut jobs to replace staff with AI, says OpenAI has made some significant advances in its agent AI program. It suggests that it has been accomplished. Agent AI refers to specialized AI agents, rather than generalized AI agents, designed for very specific and bespoke tasks. Due to hallucinations and errors, this has historically been a problem outside of low-risk jobs, but that may change.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to unveil a “doctoral-level” artificial intelligence agent in a private session with the U.S. government on January 30, 2025, according to a report. Their own work – as one would hope a person with a Ph.D. can do – they could be placed in important roles with much more responsibility than they currently have.
Sources at the outlet said staff were “stunned and scared” by recent developments in private conversations with friends that were relayed to Axios journalists. The report doesn’t go into detail about what exactly has been accomplished, but it won’t be long before OpenAI shares it with the world anyway.
Microsoft races to mainstream agent-based super AI
It can be difficult to separate fact from hype when it comes to reporting on OpenAI, but assuming the above is true, we could be on the brink of a pretty major social upheaval in the coming years. There is a gender.
Microsoft and other companies are moving toward mainstreaming super agent artificial intelligence, with the view that these AIs can replace very expensive and time-consuming tasks that currently often need to be solved by human teams. I’m in a hurry. Microsoft Azure already offers agent AI for enterprises, but its current model is quite limited in functionality, such as as a replacement for customer support. Frankly, today’s AI is generally terrible at many of the tasks it’s built into.
For example, Microsoft Copilot, now built into Microsoft Excel, provides tips on how to improve your spreadsheets. In the future, you should be able to simply tell Copilot to create highly functional spreadsheets for all sorts of complex tasks. Extrapolating this further, we can build entire software suites customized for you, perhaps even modifying your Windows shell or Xbox games on the fly. For example, it won’t be long before you’ll be able to ask Copilot to generate a Minecraft map that behaves like a terrifying survival horror game. According to our own sources, Microsoft is exploring ways to use large-scale language models to replace the entire 3D graphics pipeline. For example, AI can “imagine” a game like Skyrim on your screen and react to your controls, saving you the trouble of installing the game. This could potentially eliminate the latency issues that plague today’s cloud gaming iterations, or at least hand off some of the video encoding to local NPU computing to create a more “native” feel. there is.
In any case, elected officials are notoriously ignorant of technology and lack the effectiveness and knowledge to properly navigate the social upheaval that will come as a result of this type of technology. . There will be tons of money for shareholders (government insiders or not…) who invest in the right companies within this competition, but disaster if social contingencies occur. may occur. Technological advances are advancing rapidly and may lead us to utopia, but it is also clear that AI has the potential to undermine the weak. Our current global economic system operates on the idea of human work and human intervention. What will happen if I lose my job? Maybe we’ll find out soon.
By the way, no AI was used to write this article.
