Artificial Intelligence
Will AI replace our jobs?
4.4 (12)
35 mins
This future-peering Skoob dissects the high-stakes quest for artificial intelligence and its impacts on human functioning. Startling possibilities awaits AI's warpath from human intelligence prowess to taking jobs - but can AI be your friend? Hold on tight for a thrilling ride through technological breakthroughs and societal upheavals.
Ep 1:
Dreams, Turing, and the First AI Winter
From an 1863 warning about 'living machinery' to Turing's tragic genius and Watson's Jeopardy triumph, trace AI's wild swings between world-changing hype and devastating collapse.
Ep 2:
Building AI's Global Nervous System
GPUs built for video games became the backbone of deep learning—discover how gaming chips, cloud platforms, and brain-inspired processors quietly built AI's global infrastructure.
Ep 3:
Jobs, Minds, and the Search for True Intelligence
Will AI finally take your job, and can machines ever truly think? We confront the economics of displacement and the elusive quest for genuine machine intelligence.
Ep 4:
The New Cold War in Silicon
As China fuses military and commercial AI while Google's own employees revolt against defense work, the US and China race for technological supremacy with the world's future at stake.
Ep 5:
The Crossroads of Human Civilization
All the threads converge—technology, geopolitics, jobs, and intelligence itself—as humanity stands at a defining crossroads for the AI age ahead.
Discussions (15)
Art
Level 5 · 9 mo agoThe claim that AGI is a hundred years away ignores our current speed. Exponential growth in computing means we will see thinking machines in our lifetime.
Wilson
Level 4 · 9 mo agoMy guy if AI takes your job it wasn't that hard
Kyle
Level 4 · 9 mo agoTeacher here. The comparison of AI to a five year old is spot on. My students pick up common sense things that are impossible to code. I think we are still a long way from machines taking over.
