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Werk Week News Update - Bill Gates Warns, Otter Speaks, GPT Draws

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Artificial intelligence continues to reshape our workplaces with Bill Gates predicting AI will replace most human jobs within the next decade. His statements highlight how AI will fundamentally change not just our careers but basic human activities, raising important questions about purpose and the future of employment.

• Bill Gates predicts AI will replace most human jobs within the next decade
• Otter AI has introduced an agent that can actively participate in meetings with a human voice
• OpenAI has integrated image generation capabilities into ChatGPT

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Welcome back, architects. This is your work week news update. Today is March the 26th. We have three good topics to talk about today. So one Bill Gates has some predictions around AI and the workforce within the next couple of years. Also, we have Otter is going to introduce a new AI agent that can participate in meetings. And, last but not least, chatgpt. Openai has integrated a new kind of image generation feature inside of its tools. So let's get started.

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First up, bill Gates just recently had an interview and he made some predictions that honestly kind of freaking some folks out, making some people a little nervous. Not necessarily because it's something new. It's more so because of who it's coming from. Obviously, we all know Bill Gates as the founder of Microsoft, so things that he says in this space a lot of people will listen to. So when he's talking about tech and he's talking about AI, a lot of people tend to listen to him because of his background, and so in an interview he stated that within the next 10 years, he believed that artificial intelligence will be capable of replacing humans in most jobs. This is not a new idea. This is not something that we were hearing for the first time, but obviously Bill Gates saying this really caused a lot of people to listen, and this prediction raises again questions around the future of employment and the need for a different type of workforce. We have been talking about this on this podcast for a while that the way that we have been doing work and again, we're not talking about since the beginning of mankind, we're not even talking about since the last 500 years, but over the last hundred or so years the way that we have been doing work, the nine to five white collar concept that we have been thinking about. Ai will eat at that and do it very, very quickly, and so we have to be thinking about what is the future of employment? What is the future of employment? And also, he mentioned some potential implications for education systems as well, in terms of preparing students for what he calls an AI-driven job market, and this has created discussions over the last week on what industries might be most affected by these advancements.

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Again, we constantly think about the ethical and societal impacts of this widespread AI integration. Countries and nations are starting to develop really AI infrastructure. When you talk about data, how do you make sure that data for a particular nation or country is kept kind of in-house and can they build their own AI tools within their country to help manage some of this stuff? Again, this is not something that us as individual citizens should stress ourselves about in terms of trying to fix it, but it should absolutely be a conversation, as we are discussing things with the next generation, as we are discussing things in our own lives and our own careers. Just going about it how we typically have done so before will not work in the next couple decades, so we have to be thinking about its impact on the workforce over the next decade. And, again, the fact that Bill Gates would kind of come out and very straightforwardly just say that, hey, artificial intelligence will be capable of doing he didn't just say jobs that most humans are doing, he literally said things that most humans do. You know, if you think about a thing I don't know taking out the trash, cooking yourself breakfast that might not be your job, but that's something that you do. What happens in an environment? And again, it can be an exciting concept to think through but what happens in an environment when you have AI tools that can do things that most humans can do? Then you start having other questions around purpose and time and freedom and money and so on and so forth. So this will be the tool, the technology that defines our generation, and it's great that we have somebody like Bill Gates raising that discussion topics in other circles across our country.

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So I attend a lot of meetings. I'm a little ashamed to say it. My week is normally filled with dozens and dozens of meetings. That's a whole nother issue for another episode. I think we spend almost too much time in meetings. But, that being said, a lot of us now are very used to jumping on a Zoom call, jumping on Microsoft Teams. Having a quick meeting about all the things Doesn't really matter if it's nonprofit work for business, sometimes with friends and family. We are jumping on a lot of meetings all the time.

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I use Otter because you know there's a lot of things that are being said takeaways, to do's, notes that you want to refer back to, and so there's a tool called Otter AI and it's not the only one of its kind, but it's one of the main ones that you can actually have. The tool, or pretty much, an AI bot, join the conversation for you, transcribe it, everybody that's talking, it can take notes, it can generate a summary of the meeting, it can create some takeaways or some to-dos, and so after the meeting, I can literally go on Otter and say, hey, summarize that meeting for me, or was this question asked during the meeting? Was it answered during the meeting? What are some of the things I have to do afterwards? And so Otterai is just, I think, a fabulous tool. Again, this is a daily tool that I use.

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Well, it has launched a new AI agent that can actually actively speak up and contribute during meetings speak up and contribute during meetings. So I will repeat, Otter AI has launched a new AI agent that can actually speak up in meetings that you are on, or even meetings that you aren't on. Matter of fact, every now and then I'll get double booked for a meeting. At the same time, zoom calls. I might go to one of them. Actually, you know myself, but I'm going to send my Otter bot to the other one to take notes on my behalf. Now, it's not saying anything, it's not doing anything, but after the meeting, and actually even during the meeting, if I want to, I can check and see what's being said, what's talked about. I can get kind of a rundown, a summary, of the meeting. So the fact that now that you have an AI agent for Otter that allows you know it pretty much speaks up in the meetings is fascinating to me. I can't wait to use it.

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I mean, matter of fact, this development signifies a shift in how AI can assist in real-time communication and collaboration, but the potential benefits of this could be increased efficiency, the ability to capture some key points of discussion in the meetings. I hope this thing isn't like interrupting conversation and just deciding to speak out on its own, but it just gets real, real, interesting, and the concept is that you would give Otter some general information about your organization or your business or maybe some past meetings and, yeah, it can ask relevant questions with a human voice inside of the meeting. So this is going to have a huge impact on roles like admin assistants. Matter of fact, we, for a while now, have been using Otter again to transcribe our meetings. We still have an admin assistant, but that's not one of the tasks that they are tasked to do is to transcribe our meeting minutes. Right, that's something that the tool handles, and so the fact that something can now speak up in that meeting will have an impact on some of those roles. I remember when the Otter bots first started jumping on meetings and folks felt a little weird, like man, something's recording us right now, and people have gotten over that very, very quickly. And now you're at a point where you have a bot that's speaking up in a meeting. That's probably going to be weird until maybe the summertime and then probably in the fall, every meeting you go on, there's going to be a little bot that's going to be speaking up and asking questions. Welcome to 2025.

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And, last but not least, openai has integrated its GPT-4.0 model, which is one of its latest models, and they've integrated it and powering now image generation into chat GPT. So OpenAI, which again owns chat GPT, has rolled out an image generation and it's pretty much powered by their their GPT-4 model, into its platform. So what does this mean? What does all this mean? So users can now generate images based on just text, text prompts within chat GPT. Hey, give me an image of a man walking down the streets of Nigeria with, I don't know, a basketball in his hand right, and it will generate that image for you.

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And so this feature really enhances the features and the versatility of ChatGPT because it kind of bridges the gap between the text creation and the visual content creation that people can use and potential applications. I mean it ranges from graphic design assistance to educational content development. I mean, now you can probably say, hey, I want a children's book around financial literacy. It should be I don't know 20 pages, and on this page I wanted to talk about this and I want a picture that looks like that and it's going to generate this stuff for you. So it has a lot of potential applications across the board.

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Now, obviously, in terms of quality and of the images and the originality of the images, compared to human creative visuals, I'm pretty sure if you had you an expert human artist, you can probably still get a better image from that human.

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The question is time.

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Right, the time is going to take you to call the artist to describe what you want them to do, for them to take the time to draw it out, for them to charge you.

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Now, if you're telling me, I can just go and chat to BT and say, yeah, create me an image of a black father with his son talking about financial literacy using dollar bills, and then I can have that image now in literally 30 seconds and keep going about my business. Again, I think, even if it's not quite what you need it to be right now. This is the worst it will ever be, and so it's going to just keep getting better and better and better. So OpenAI, integrating this image generation inside of ChatGPT, is another step forward to this kind of new creative space that we live in, and learning how to use that stuff is going to be critical for the average person that's doing any type of content creation activities. And that's it for your Workweek News update. Again, please don't forget to like us and follow us on Spotify, apple Podcasts, wherever you listen to your podcasts, and until next time, keep up the scratch work. Keep building, bye.