MIT CSAIL Podcast: How AI will Change Your Job and The Potential of Self-Supervised Learning
Building 32 from MIT CSAIL AlliancesShow Notes
How AI will Change Your Job with MIT Economics Professor David Autor & The Potential of Self-Supervised Learning with CSAIL PhD Student Sharut Gupta
Host: Kara Miller
Part One: MIT Economics Professor David Autor says that AI is “not like a calculator where you just punch in the numbers and get the right answer. It's much harder to figure out how to be effective with it.” Offering unique insights into the future of work in an AI-powered world, Professor Autor explains his biggest worries, the greatest upside scenarios, and how he believes we should be approaching AI as a tool, and addresses how AI will impact jobs like nursing and skilled trades.
Studies and papers referenced in conversation:
AI and Product Innovation: https://aidantr.github.io/files/AI_innovation.p AI and the Gender Gap: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4759218 Robotics and Nursing Homes:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33116
Part Two: CSAIL PhD student Sharut Gutpa describes how self-supervised learning might bring about truly adaptable models which can respond to fast-changing environments, like consumer preferences.
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