What is your personal AI career development strategy? Good People, this AI thing will expire many careers. Yes, I have seen how technology has punted and expired careers. When I started computing after graduating from FUT Owerri, we made money coupling computers for people.
You would buy computer motherboards, hard disks, RAMs, etc, and with a boot diskette, you would get everything going, loading and running a BIOS utility program that would enable the installation of the operating system. In two hours, the computer would be ready for us.
It was a great business and we were geeks. Then one day, there was no need for a geek, as everything was coupled and packaged from the factory. So, they disintermediated the roles of geeks, and one by one, that opportunity closed. I panicked and decided to return back to electrical engineering as I felt that “IT” was vulnerable.
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Today, AI will do the same thing to many careers at scale. And I ask you to PLAN to be the boss of AI, because this thing will cause dislocations, and only the bosses will remain. Yes, you must rule AI, and that means having skills which make you better with AI support. Simply, AI-compliant skills and capabilities.
In a bold leap forward for artificial intelligence (AI), OpenAI unveiled its latest innovation on Monday—a revolutionary AI model named GPT-4o, accompanied by a desktop version of ChatGPT and an overhauled user interface.
This release represents OpenAI’s ambitious endeavor to democratize access to its renowned chatbot technology while elevating user experience to unprecedented heights.
During a live-streamed event, Mira Murati, the technology chief at OpenAI, delivered the momentous announcement, announcing the integration of GPT-4 into ChatGPT for all users, including those on the free tier.
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