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Replacing workers with AI sounded spectacular. There are already companies backward

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That an AI takes away our work is A fear That is being realized. More and more companies that bet on replacing human employees with automated processes with AI. At the same time, the potential that the AI agents It seems almost unlimited. The reality is much more complex and there are already some companies that have had to give reverse in their plans. Yes, but to supervise her humans. There are many companies that have begun to draw a plan to replace their employees with AI, especially in the sector of the customer service. However, according to a survey of Gartner, 50% of companies are abandoning this path due to the challenges that the transition to a service managed only by AI is assuming. 95% of the executives surveyed claimed that they would bet on a hybrid approach combining AI and Human agents. In the words of Kathy Ross, director of the Gartner customer service: “IA offers significant potential to transform customer service, but it is not the panacea. The human touch remains irreplaceable in many interactions.” The Klarna case. Perhaps the most popular case of a company that has regretted betting on the AI ​​is that of Klarna. In February 2024, his CEO presumed that an AI was doing the work of the 700 employees who had just fired and also assured that he was receiving the same score from the clients. A year later, the quality of service offered by AI received many criticisms and had to back to hire human labor Ensure that customers can always talk to a human agent. Not so quickly. Although currently the agents of AI are not so reliable As Altman promisedit does not guarantee that they will not improve in the future. In addition, there are cases of other companies to replace humans for AI has gone well. Like the CEO of this Indian startup that He fired 90% of the template And a year later he states that it has been A success. And it is not the only one. Duolingo, for example, fired 10% of its translators to replace them with an AI. Other large companies such as UPS and Cisco They have followed similar paths. The case of IBM It is particular, since, although it has opted for AI, it has also had to hire more workers precisely to manage that AI. IA agents. With the generative AI in decelerationsince the end of last year there is another concept that has gained relevance, that of the AI agents. While chatbots can only attend one request at the same time, an AI agent is able to perform more complex tasks. For example, you could organize the holidays only to mention the dates and destiny. The promise of autonomy, the ability to handle several tasks at the same time and make decisions make the AI ​​agents A threat to many jobs. Unreliable. We can all make mistakes and in this it seems that AI agents are very human. The problem is that if an AF agent makes an error, he continues to repeat in successive tasks, making the error increasing And the final result is also wrong. We have also seen other uses of AI tools at work that have not fully went well, such as disastrous work interviews conducted with AI. A revealing experiment. A experiment carried out by researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University He suggested that they are still very green. They created a fictitious software company whose employees were AI agents. They used Google, OpenAi, Anthropic and Meta models, to which they assigned roles such as finance, administration or software engineering. The result was disastrous: they only managed to complete 24% of the tasks assigned to them. AI and labor market. The impact of AI on the labor market is undeniable. According to the last World Economic Forum Reportit is expected that by 2030 92 million jobs will be destroyed due to AI automation. But there is another face of the currency. At the same time, they will be created 170 million new positions And the AI ​​will be one of the job creation engines, something we have already seen with Salesforce’s case. Cover image | Pixabay In Xataka | The workers have stopped fear of AI as a machine to destroy jobs: software engineers do not think the same

The world seeks that pot with AI that ends up replacing the iPhone. China already prepares to win that war

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The Holy Grail of Hardware with AI. In recent days, the OpenAI project, which has Bought the Jony Ive design company To create a mysterious Hardware of AI device. There is also a clear interest in the segment of the connected glasses and with AI: what Google presented with Project Atlas and with their Android XR glasses He is also promising. Those developments start from the US, but they will not be alone. Not much less. Hi, Lightsail. Dong Hongguang, employee number 89 of Xiaomi and who for years was head of the customization layer of the Xiaomi, He has just created his own company. It is called Lightsail (光帆科技) —Guangfan Technology – and its goal is to create a device with AI. It has completed two modest investment rounds of 18 million dollars in total, but after the project are Catl, Afterhokz, Goertek and Gigadevice. A diverse team. Lightsail has a promising team, since he has hired former employees of Xiaomi, Huawei, Bytedance, Alibaba or Tencent. All of them have worked in fields such as operating systems, AI and device integration. The support of the aforementioned companies is also key: the company ensures the support of technological partners that provide the components to create that future device. AI AGENTS ALWAYS. The objective, Explain The analyst Rui Ma, is to create a wearable in which to integrate an agricultural purpose of general purpose. Or what is the same: that this hardware device –A pendant? A AI HUMAN PIN -type clip?– Allows a constant voice interaction in which AI is responsible for solving all kinds of doubts and tasks. A future full of wearables with AI. Companies such as Lightsail state that in about five years wearables will stop limited to specific tasks to be a total interface to interact with AI. For now, the Software Components is somewhat green, and does not allow dynamic coordination and multimodality support that something like this would need. China is super strong in glasses. In the short term the most promising product are glasses with AI, and in China that market is about to exploit. There are “five dragons” of augmented reality In this country with notable products, and the rhythm they are developing and powerful models is frantic. Xreal, Rayneo, Rokid, Ingo and Meizu are the great protagonists of a segment that is in full boiling. Trying to unseat the mobile. There are several companies in China and the United States that are working on these hardware devices with AI, and what is raised is the definitive witness change that could leave the mobile in the background. At the moment what we have seen has been a disaster: Both the Rabbit R1 and the Humane Ai Pin proved to be very greenand our mobile phones are still today great devices. In fact, they are still clear candidates to be the center of our experience with AI. Magic Leap promised too much. Then the disappointments arrived. Beware of expectations. The aforementioned failures of the first hardware devices with AI have left a worrying sensation: better not to trust the promises of this type of products. Both promised benefits that were later worse, and there was an over -dimensioning of expectations. We live it in the past with that disappoint with the augmented reality of Magic Leap. Sam Altman’s speech and Jony Ive follow that pattern, and according to the OpenAi CEO what they are creating will be “the most amazing piece of technology that the world will ever see.” You have to grant the benefit of the doubt, but as explained by analyst Ed Zitron In a recent column, Altman’s trajectory and IVE does not leave good prospects here. In Xataka | Chatgpt has been a tool. If you start remembering all our conversations, it will be something else: a relationship

The greatest fear was that AI took our work. The reality is that they are replacing those who are learning to work

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In just a few weeks, thousands of students from generation Z will graduate in their respective careers with the hope of get that first job that allows them to start a professional career. However, the current panorama is increasingly complicated for those who seek their first job opportunity. The Difficulty accessing the labor market Not only does it come for the structural part of an economy shaking by Commercial uncertainty. The AI ​​is already beginning to assume tasks that until now carried out the Practices in practices or Junior employees, which traditionally served as an initial step for the newly graduates. The staircase has broken. As explained Aneesh Raman, responsible for Economic Opportunities of LinkedIn In an article for The New York Times“The first thing that is being broken is the lowest step of the professional staircase”, a trend that threatens to leave many young people without the possibility of learning and growing in their first years of career. As He predicted Fortune In 2024, the AI ​​already is doing your jobso there is no reason for companies to hire them. Currently, AI acts mainly as a support tool to lighten the workload of senior employees by automating routine tasks. In great technology, Like AmazonGoogle or Microsoft, are implemented to help their developers do administrative or generation tasks small code fragments. Tasks that until now were part of the learning process of Junior employees. The Z generation is already noticing it. Chris Hyams, CEO of Indeed, said in the Fortune‘S Workplace Innovation Summit that: “The good news is that there is no job that AI can perform all the skills required. This does not mean that it will not replace the workers, but the AI ​​cannot replace a complete job.” However, Hyams said that “in approximately two thirds of all works, 50% or more of the skills required are things that the current generative AI can do reasonably well, or very well.” This means that, although AI does not eliminate all positions, it does reduce the need to perform many basic tasks that used to train new employees. Youth unemployment data in the US. The implantation rhythm of AI in the business field is being faster in the United States than in other countries. According The published by The Atlantic, The New York Federal Reserve He warnedof an increase in unemployment among the newly graduates standing at 5.8% and 6.2% for younger workers. That is, something is happening in the entrance to the labor market. Although there is still no definitive evidence that AI is the only cause of the weakening of this link in the professional career of the youngest, the trend is clear: the opportunities to learn working from below are disappearing in the sectors where AI is being implemented faster, as companies Like Duolingo or Shopify They are adopting policies that reduce hiring options of the youngest to do those routine tasks if there is the possibility that they can make them an AI. Ask for qualified employees, but not form them. In parallel to the creation of this training wall imposed by automation, companies from all over the world denounce a growing shortage of qualified labor. According to recent European Union data collectedby Euronewsthe lack of experienced workers and advanced skills has become one of the main challenges for the economy. This phenomenon creates a paradox: as long as young people do not find opportunities to train in companies from their simpler processes, companies fail to cover their vacancies with qualified personnel. If this trend is consolidated, in a few years AI will not have left millions of workers without employment. In reality, it will have been the companies themselves who would have prevented the training of qualified personnel and with the necessary experience for supervise the work of AI that is developing. In Xataka | Founders of small startups and large technological ones already has something in common: they are millmillonarios thanks to the AI In Xataka | “Humans will not be necessary for most things”: Bill Gates does not believe that doctors and teachers have a future Image | Unspash (Mushvig Niftaliyev)

Replacing the Air Force One has become a nightmare for the US. Qatar wants to fix it with a “flying palace”

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Air Force One. Few names have more strength than that of the US presidential plane. Ha star filmsis one of the official air transport of the United States (Next to the Nightwatch prepared for the ‘End of the world‘) And it is a strength with wings that has become an iconic vehicle. I had to renew it, and Trump is going to get out “free” The reason? ABC News affirms that the new Air Force One would be a gift by Qatar’s royal family. Trump does not deny it and is a cocktail that has set fire to US politics. Even to the most related to the president. It was renewal. He Boeing VC-25 It is the current presidential plane. It has been in service of the 35 -year -old and, although the airplanes usually have a long useful life, maintenance costs began to be unprofitable. In January 2015, the Air Force announced that they had already chosen which plane to work for the new Air Force One: the Boeing 747-8. Known as VC-25Bthe Air Force organized with Boeing an agreement to buy two 747-8 that were never delivered to a Russian airline that had gained, and thus some money was saved because it is not just buying them: also adapt them with the necessary equipment and security and create an adequate hangar. The current Air Force One Trump negative. In December 2016, before entering the White House for his first term, Donald Trump already showed his disagreement with the price of the program. Boeing is building a new Air Force One 747 for future presidents, but the costs are out of control, more than 4,000 million dollars. Cancel the order! tweeted The tycoon. The Boeing 747-8 entered into service at the beginning of the last decade and was a modernized generation, with both technological and aerodynamic improvements that, in addition, was one of the longest passenger aircraft in the world. In addition, it is of American manufacture, so it was a clear option for the new presidential plane. It was estimated that it would go into service in 2024, but delays and other problems have prolonged the operation up to, at least2027. And that is where Qatar’s royal family can change the rules of the game. A “flying palace” gift. This week, Trump will begin his state travel carousel. As happened in his previous term, Saudi Arabia will be his first destination, followed by Qatar and Arab Emirates. It is one Logic choice Due to the interest shared both in economics (they invest billions in the purchase of American weapons) and geopolitics (US bases in the region, keys to Asian domination), but apart from those treatment, Trump can return with a new presidential plane under his arm. As we read in NBCDifferent sources suggest that Trump will accept a luxurious Boeing 747-8 as a gift by the Royal Family of Qatar. One of the sources consulted by the American media is one of the White House officials, who admitted that it is true that Qatar has offered to donate a plane to the defense department, but that it is not something that will be accepted during the president’s visit. From the Catarí press department, they have been somewhat more concrete: “The possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use such as Air Force One is currently being considered between the Ministry of Defense of Catar and the US Department of Defense, but the matter remains reviewed by the respective legal departments, and a decision has not yet been made.” Reactions. This is something that has not taken long to explode in the American political sphere. Democratic representatives have loaded Against the decision, asking for investigations on what they have described as a “flying scam” or as “the most valuable gift ever granted to a president by a foreign government.” Because we are talking about a vehicle of about 300/4 billion dollars, and there are those who have thrown sarcasm, such as Senator Chuck Schumer. “Nothing says ‘America first’ like an Air Force One sponsored by Qatar. It is not just a bribe, it is a luxury foreign influence with extra space for the legs,” Comment In X. Bernie Sanders has gone somewhat further, describing the movement as something “ridiculously corrupt” and “blatantly unconstitutional.” It is not bribery. Critics They assure which is something that must be presented and approved in Congress, because it is the practice to be followed by the Emoluments clause of the Constitution. This prohibits the president and other federal officials from accepting gifts from foreign governments without the approval of Congress, but the turn is that it would not be a gift to Trump, but to the Department of Defense. A former official of the Department of Justice spoke with NBC anonymously, commenting that bribe Trump is committed to total transparency. ” Trump himself has commented The following in its Truth social network, qualifying Qatar 747-8 as an Air Force One of Transition: “The fact that the Department of Defense receives a totally free gift from a 747 plane to temporarily replace the 40 -year -old Air Force One, in a very public and transparent transaction, annoys the corrupt Democrats so much that insist that we pay it, at the price of gold. The Democrats are world -class losers! Maga!” And after the mandate … Same Leavitt statements for ABC Newsmedium that states that White House lawyers consider that it is “legally permissible” to accept the donation of the plane due to the alleged small print of the agreement: the Catarí government will donate it to the Department of Defense to use it as Air Force One, but before the end of the president’s mandate in 2029, the plane will be donated again: to its presidential library. In this way, Trump can continue to use it as a private plane when he leaves the position. Of course, this is also controversial and organisms that fight for responsibility and ethics in Washington have shouted in … Read more

OpenAi already prepares agents of AI capable of replacing the most valuable employees. And plans to charge $ 20,000 per month for them

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Many feared that AI stole their work. However, new leaked data In The Information They raise a quite different situation, because the prices that OpenAi shuffles for their future advanced agents is absolutely extraordinary. $ 20,000 per month for an AI agent. According to this medium, Openai plans to launch several AI agents oriented to various tasks and scenarios. And the more advanced and specialized, the more expensive they will be. In fact, the most expensive they are talking about would be an investigating agent with the level of a human doctorate, and that would cost $ 20,000 per month. Hiring AI employees will not be cheap. There are other agents such as the qualified as a “knowledge worker with high income” that will have an estimated price of 2,000 dollars per month. If what we want is subtitUOpenai’s proposal will cost $ 10,000 per month. Agents who will work at all hours. The theoretical advantage of these agents is that they will be able to do a theoretically impeccable job, but they will also do it at all hours, without breaks or breaks, without weekends or vacations and without getting bad. If they are really able to do the job as well (or better) as a human being in that position, the investment may come out very profitable. There is no estimated date. It is not clear when these agricultural IAS will be launched or when they will be available for companies, but in The Information they point out how SoftBank – a versor in Openai – has committed to invest 3,000 million dollars in OpenAi agents this year. And OpenAi needs a lot of money. Those expensive subscriptions would leave the current Chatgpt Pro plan of 200 dollars a month, but are of course the road that OpenAi has to become profitable. Today, like most AI companies, OpenAi is burning money and spends much more than he enters. The Plan: Be profitable in 2029. Internal data were leaked months ago according to which OpenAI I hoped to be profitable in 2029. To achieve this they have a fairly simple plan: offer increasingly faces that will make users who want to access their most advanced AI models pay small fortunes monthly. The AI ​​revolution will face. If we listen to these new rumors, it will be better for companies to prepare for the future. One in which they may have the option of “hiring AI employees”, but They are better to be profitablebecause everything indicates that their salaries will be high. Image | Techcrunch In Xataka | “I have three years of work”: more and more IA managers believe that AI will end up removing the position

We have been trying to reinvent the wheel for years. It turns out that it was as simple as replacing it with pilates balls

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I have always seemed curious the saying “We are not going to reinvent the wheel.” It is used when trying to develop a solution from scratch instead of taking advantage of an already proven and works well. And I say it seems curious because We have reinvented the wheel On many occasions, and we continue to do so. Two examples are wheels without air And, above all, the solutions for vehicles operating on land like Mars. Although circulars, its technology and design have nothing to do with the wheels we use daily. And, okay, I accept that, being circular, we are really changing the materials, not reinventing the object. But what if instead of making circular wheels … we made them spherical? Because that is precisely what the engineer and youtuber James Bruton has built: some omnidirectional wheels that solve current problems They have motorcycles and that would also be very interesting if they apply to vehicles such as cars and trucks. Let’s welcome the wheel II To reinvent the wheel, the system should not be just an improved version of the original. As I commented, the Antipinhazos wheels They are not a completely reinvention, but a technological improvement. What Bruton has achieved could be described as a reinvention (although he has side more than one attempt). The reason? In its motorcycle prototype of the future, we not only have the two balls that make contact with the ground, but a system of three rotary mechanisms for each wheel that are really applying the necessary force to move the balls and, therefore, the vehicle. More than the spheres, the key to the peculiar movement of this vehicle are systems that rotate in opposite directions and all the time balance each other to achieve movement. Each of these mechanisms is driven by an electric motor that transfers the power, but also introduced a self -evaluated system similar to that of a Segway. In this way, it is not necessary to rely on the floor with the legs when the vehicle stops, and it is not necessary to maintain the balance in a “manual” way. Its advantages? You can go back without boosting with your legs. It has lateral displacement. You can make diagonals and turn on your axis. For a parking lot, this is great. In the video it is very interesting to see that the noise it makes is minimal, that it reaches some speed and that the mechanisms that rotate the balls are working all the time to give speed to the vehicle and to maintain balance. Imperfect, but with potential Now, it is not perfect. In the video we can see that the youtuber has trouble going straight and There seems to be a quite pronounced difficulty curve both to go forward and to take a curve. In a road situation, it would be something really dangerous because, in addition, we do not have a conventional handlebar, but a bar that remains fixed and controls rotating the handle. There is also a time when it accelerates more of the account and the balls are shot. Wow, something like that would need your own driver’s license if applied to the real world, but if the problems were solved, it is a very interesting system for motorcycles due to automatic balance. For cars and trucks it would not be a bad idea either, since they could park much more simplely. Seeing this invention, the Audi of the movie ‘I, robot’ that has similar wheels and It was a real prototype. Also the Byd video parking in parallel Thanks to nailing the front wheels and making the rear turn slowly to “skid” until the car is aligned in the parking lot. Will we adopt wheel one day like these? Whatever happens, the truth is that it is interesting how we continue to find new ways to improve something that has implanted so many years. Images | James Bruton In Xataka | Bridgestone has set out to literally reinvent the wheel (and is already testing it in electric cars)

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