Facebook parent Meta entered the AI battle with a surprising one-two punch, with companies already replacing workers with ChatGPT and remote work paranoia.
The hashtags trending for Monday, February 27th And I’m your host, Jim Love, bringing you the top tech news for today.
On Friday, Meta, the parent of social media giant Facebook, announced it is entering the AI competition with a massive language model it claims will outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3.
If Meta’s announcement is to be believed, their new AI, called LLAMA, has two big differences from OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
First, the Meta offering is ten times smaller.
Second, meta trained your AI using publicly available datasets, such as normal crawlWikipedia, and c 4, which makes the sourcing of training more transparent and allows the possibility that Meta’s models can be offered as open source. and in a Tweet issued by Guillaume Lampel, a project memberIt appears that making the model open source is a real possibility.
Lampl says: Unlike Chinchilla, PaLM or GPT-3, we only use publicly available datasets, making our work open-sourcing and reproducible, whereas most existing models relay on the data Which is not publicly available either on non-document.
The key to this success is a parameter called size. Parameters are the variables that a machine-learning model uses to make its predictions based on the input data. Larger models are generally more capable of providing more complex answers. But since more parameters take up exponentially more computing resources, if the AI can produce the same result with fewer parameters, it is capable of running with far fewer resources.
Anyone who has tried to check ChatGPT and got “Server busy” message is on Direct experience of why a more efficient model might be of more use.
Plus, the model with a reputed 10X efficiency gain opens the way for ChatGPT style AI on devices like PCs and possibly smartphones.
A copy of the link to Meta’s paper announcing their new model The text version of this podcast can be found at ITWorldCanada.com
Its sources include an article Arstecnica
Employers are already converting employees to ChatGPT
Resumebuilder.com, an online app for resume development, surveyed 1,000 business leaders who are already using or planning to use ChatGPT. About half of companies have already implemented it, and of those that have adopted it, about half say they were already using it to replace workers.
“As this new technology is booming in the workplace right now, workers definitely need to think about how it may impact their current job responsibilities,” said Stacey Haller, chief career advisor at ResumeBuilder. The results of this survey Explains that employers are looking to streamline some job responsibilities using ChatGPT.
Some of the methods companies are using, according to the survey results chatgpt included 66 percent for writing code, 57 percent for customer support, and 52 percent for meeting summaries and other documents.
77 percent of companies say they are using ChatGPT to help write job descriptions, 66 percent to draft interview questions and 65 percent to respond to applications.
And in a news release from ResumeBuilder.com, the company reported that companies were extremely impressed with the results to date. “Fifty-five percent say the quality of work produced by ChatGPT is ‘excellent’ and 34 percent say it is ‘very good’.”
Haller said that “the economic model for using ChatGPT is evolving.” But of the companies that were surveyed, nearly all said they saved money, with 48 percent saying they saved over $50,000 and 11 percent saying they saved more than $100,000.
No wonder 93 percent said they plan to expand their use of ChatGPT. Another note from the survey – 90 percent Executives say the ChatGPT experience is beneficial to job seekers – unless it’s already been used at their job site.
Productivity paranoia?
Another survey by Envoy.com claimed that although 94 percent of employees feel that their managers trust them to work from anywhere, only 24 percent of those same employees trust their co-workers. There are those who work from home.
Larry Gedea, CEO and Founder of Envoy, said,
“Low visibility in the office is skewing perceptions and creating mistrust of everyone and everything, starting with leadership and trickling down,” “Now, managers realize that in-person relationships and trust Employee development is critical to getting the job done right, especially in today’s environment.
There is also a significant difference between the responses of Gen Z, Millennials and Baby Boomers. Only 57 percent of Gen Z “feel they have the trust of a manager.” This is compared to 71 percent of Millennials and 77 percent of Boomers.
But despite these differences, they are universally suspicious of their co-workers. Only 31 percent of Gen Z, 23 percent of Millennials and 17 percent of Boomers rely on their colleagues when working outside the office.
This mistrust percentage varies fundamentally based on whether employees work remotely or full-time in the office themselves. While 34 percent of hybrid workers trust their colleagues, only 10 percent of those working full-time in an office feel the same.
Nearly all (98 percent) felt that some work gets done better in the office. Training and onboarding, problem solving and brainstorming were preferred in the office by half or more of the sample. Curiously, conflict management was seen as more effective in the office by only 37 percent and only 35 percent thought the office was best for meeting people outside the organization.
One of the most notable statistics in the context of the recent spate of layoffs is that 92 percent said that being seen in the office improves their job security.
Sources include: techrepublic And envoy.com
And in more news related to the fastest-growing app ever, hackers are taking advantage of ChatGPT’s popularity to defraud unsuspecting users.
ITWorldCanada.com security reporter, Howard Solomon, reported several weeks ago that there were a number of applications in the Google Play Store that were purported to be additions to ChatGPT, but that actually contained malware or could potentially steal data or Could load malware onto the user’s phone. or PC. according to a tweet from Dominic Alvieri, the number of those potentially malicious apps keeps growing, Alvieri, , so dedicated to safety that he’s reporting Deleted my own Facebook account – Told there were 1,453 domains registered this week including the word chatgpt
According to Alvieri, a website called chat-gpt-pc.online presented itself as a way to download ChatGPT as a native application for Windows. Alvieri found that the download would inject users with malware called Redline that steals information from the user’s web browser. For example, if a user has a password or credit card information stored in their browser, this application can pull that information and send it to hackers.
A report by cyber security firm Cyble has detected more than 50 fake ChatGPT apps., In addition to stealing data, one of these, called ChatGPT1, does not provide any AI services, but secretly subscribes its victims to multiple payment services in an SMS billing fraud scheme.
Until a reliable list of AI programs becomes available, the only reliable source of ChatGPT is through the OpenAI website or the feature in the Bing web browser.
Despite layoffs, average pay for tech workers in the United States exceeds six figures According to Dice.com, a leading salary database provider
Dice’s 2023 Tech Salaries Report states that “tTheir average tech salary rose 2.3 percent year over year to $111,000 in 2022 (compared to $108,000). After a year of strong pay growth for tech professionals, the continued rise in average tech salaries shows that tech skills and the professionals who provide them can still command high. Compensation due to constant demand.
The top cities in terms of salaries saw significant gains, including Tampa, which increased 22 percent year-over-year, and Portland, which increased 16 percent.
Plus, according to Dice’s analysis, salaries in excess of six figures for high-tech workers are no longer limited to the coasts. including non-traditional tech hubs COLUMBUSAverage tech salary saw 16 percent year-over-year growth, and wonder Salary saw an increase of 26 percent.
The top 25 cities for tech compensation all have average salaries above $100,000, and these locations span three countries.across the country. You can visit Dice.com/Salary Trends for more information.
Source: business Insider
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