AI Renaissance: Fueling Job Growth in the Digital Age

Author(s): Jacob Ingle

Originally published on Towards AI.

Why I believe AI will create more jobs than it destroys and how I use it in my daily life
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The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.

— Stephen Hawking

The above quote from Stephen Hawking really captures the potential and perceived dangers of artificial intelligence. While some of these anticipated dangers, such as the Terminator scenario, may seem farfetched, a real fear among the populace is the loss of your job due to AI.

In this article, I will walk the reader through my opinion on why I believe AI will have the opposite effect. While I believe some jobs will indeed be lost, even more jobs will be created as a result.

As of the date I am writing this article, it almost seems like a new AI tool is being released daily.

More than 1 in 4 dollars invested in American startups this year has gone to an artificial intelligence-related company, Crunchbase data shows.

-Crunchbase

If a company and/or an individual has a use case for AI, they would need to navigate through the robust environment of AI services/tools/offerings/etc., and select the ones that… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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