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Living With Climate Change: Wind damage will impact more U.S. homes than before, in Florida especially. How best to protect your property.
: Beyond ‘Where’s the beef?’ Older people, especially women, have economic power.
An average router ruined my smart home, especially my Nest speakers
The Margin: Inflation woes: Why organic-food shoppers are especially feeling the pinch
CBS Explores Whether AI Will Eliminate Jobs — Especially For Coders
That’s the beginning of a segment broadcast on CBS’s morning-television news show (with the headline, “Will artificial intelligence erase jobs?”) Some excerpts:
“As artificial intelligence gets better…. job security is only supposed to get worse. And in reports like this one, of the top jobs our AI overlords plan to kill, coding or computing programming is often on the list. So with the indulgence of Sam Zonka, a coder and instructor at the General Assembly coding school in New York, I decided to test the idea of an imminent AI takeover — by seeing if the software could code for someone who knows as little about computers as me — eliminating the need to hire someone like him.”
Gayle King: “So all this gobbledy-gook on the screen. That’s what people who sit in these classrooms learn?”
“And I for one was prepared to be amazed. But take a look at the results. About as basic as a basic web site can be.”
King: What do you think? You’re the professional.
Zonka: Ehh.
[Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also spoke to CBS right before the launch of its OpenAI-powered Bing search engine, arguing that AI will create more satisfaction in current jobs as well as more net new jobs — and even helping the economy across the board. “My biggest worry,” Nadella says, “is we need some new technology that starts driving real productivity. It’s time for some real innovation.]
King: Do you think it’ll drive up wages?
Nadella: I do believe it will drive up wages, because productivity and wages are related.
At the end of the report, King tells his co-anchors “In the long term, the research suggests Nadella is correct. In the long term, more jobs, more money. It’s in the short-term that all the pain happens.”
The report also features an interview with MIT economist David Autor, saying he believes the rise of AI “does indeed mean millions of jobs are going to change in our lifetime. And what’s scary is we’re just not sure how…. He points out, for example, that more than 60% of the types of jobs people are doing today didn’t even exist in the 1940s — while many of the jobs that did exist have been replaced.”
There was also a quote from Meredith Whittaker (co-founder of the AI Now Institute and former FTC advisor), who notes that AI systems “don’t replace human labor. They just require different forms of labor to sort of babysit them to train them, to make sure they’re working well. Whose work will be degraded and whose house in the Hamptons will get another wing? I think that’s the fundamental question when we look at these technologies and ask questions about work.”
Later King tells his co-anchors that Whittaker’s suggestion was for workers to organize to try to shape how AI system are implemented in their workplace.
But at an open house for the General Assembly code camp, coder Zonka says on a scale of 1 to 10, his worry about AI was only a 2. “The problem is that I’m not entirely sure if the AI that would replace me is 10 years from now, 20 years from now, or 5 years from now.”
So after speaking to all the experts, King synthesized what he’d learned. “Don’t necessarily panic. You see these lists of all the jobs that are going to be eliminated. We’re not very good at making those predictions. Things happen in different ways than we expect. And you could actually find an opportunity to make more money, if you figure out how you can complement the machine as opposed to getting replaced by the machine.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Elden Ring is still the best game for spell-slinging (especially with the latest DLC)
Getting magic right in games is hard. You want spells and the art of the arcane to feel satisfying and visceral, but at the same time you want it to evoke all the feelings of lofty knowledge and insight – a feeling both unknowable and unhuman. You want to feel, via your pad of choice, the tingling of magic in your fingertips, the surging of mana in your veins. Simply holding down a trigger button and whispering out some flaccid fire attack doesn’t do the job: you need to feel the weight of your spells, feel the importance of your incantations.
A lot of games get magic wrong. It’s too geometric, or too rigid, or too pissy. I should have known that FromSoft would buck the trend of underpowered, watered-down magic in games – I just never expected the studio to be this good at it.
Our own Alex reflected on how good Elden Ring’s magic is just after the game launched, back in March 2022. “Brute force and ignorance has always been the thing that’s got me through these games – and the same was true with Elden Ring,” he wrote, before explaining that – thanks to the game’s fascinating relationship with all things eldritch – a magic run in Elden Ring helped him fall in love with the game all over again.
Fire Emblem Engage has some refreshing representation, especially by Nintendo standards
There’s a lot to love about Fire Emblem Engage. I’ve been particularly taken with its more detail-led approach to its strategy combat, more in line with some of the older entries in this series than Three Houses. I do like its characters, too, even though they’re arguably more thinly developed than in other recent Fire Emblem games. But one thing I particularly love about it is… there’s just some quietly good representation.
Fire Emblem Engage has a handful of rad dark-skinned people, and the game doesn’t make a big deal out of it. They’re just there, and it’s the most natural thing in the world. This is rare, and I love it.
You do get black characters in Japanese RPGs, of course – Final Fantasy 7’s Barret is the classic poster-child – but it’s also fair to say they’re not exactly common. Art reflects the culture in which it is made, but in my experiences exploring the country, black people are probably even more rare in Japanese games than in Japan itself for real, especially in cities.
The Ryzen 5600 is much better value than the 5600X – especially with this deal
AMD’s Ryzen 5600X was a favourite of value-oriented gamers when it debuted in late 2020 – to say nothing of RPS head big honcho Katharine – so unsurprisingly AMD followed it up with an even cheaper model, the 5600, about a year later. This non-X variant performs more or less identically, with a slightly low rated boost clock that translates into one or two percent worse performance in CPU-limited scenarios. Given the fact that the 5600 is £13 cheaper on Amazon right now, we’d recommend it over the X any time.