The company that gave us the Dog Ears and Rainbow Vomit filters is selling augmented-reality technology to businesses, enabling users to virtually try on clothes, makeup and jewelry.
Between mining for rare minerals, cooling data centers, and running computers for millions of hours, the climate impact of artificial intelligence is big and getting bigger.
A “prompt engineer,” whose job is to elicit the most effective responses from these new tools, can make a big salary. But those specialized skills may eventually become ordinary.
Proposition 22 is widely seen as a major carve-out of California labor law, allowing Uber, Lyft and similar businesses to classify their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.
The Automated Employment Decision Tools law will require companies to regularly audit their hiring software and notify job candidates of its use. Vikram Bhargava of George Washington University wonders whether these tools will undermine HR accountability.
Bethany Edmunds of Northeastern University says these systems are built to generate text and language, not to be factually accurate — however plausible their references may seem.
