1. Industries like consumer electronics and toys that are not heavily regulated, and allow for technological innovation to improve quality and reduce prices.

2. Industries like healthcare and housing that are heavily regulated and tend to have monopolistic structures, result in higher prices due to restricted supply caused by regulation.

3. While AI will have a profound positive effect on society, most jobs in the future will be in regulated sectors that are safe from AI, and therefore, Universal Basic Income already exists for those working in those sectors, which consumers pay for through higher prices

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Alan Kay famously stated that "Some people worry that AI will make us feel inferior, but then again anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower". But what does this mean for the everyday consumer? In many sectors such as media and toys, technological innovation has pushed prices down to more affordable levels - explaining why your TV today is so much better value than it was ten years ago. Unfortunately however, when government subsidies and regulations become involved (as with health care and education), price lines do not drop due to industry structures of monopolization which are enabled by these governing bodies. This creates increased costs for consumers who wish to access services within these areas.

AI technology could potentially bring about vast improvements across society; yet its impact on our daily lives is likely less direct than one may expect since most jobs would remain unaffected unless major governmental reforms were implemented firstly before any advancement could be realized from AI capabilities alone. It's clear therefore how frustrating it can be feeling helpless against those beholden forces responsible causing inflated pricing or preventing desired change – all while they continue receiving financial support under the guise of 'consumer protection' initiatives sponsored by regulatory commissions or other officials within executive branches of state departments . Ultimately we must ask ourselves whether tolerating this reality serves anyone else besides entrenched interests seeking further growth opportunities through market consolidation strategies?

"Hello, freak bitches and welcome to the Bro Jogan experience," says a voice that sounds very like Joe Rogan. His guest is a voice that sounds very like late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

This is audio by Uncanny Valley produced by Play.ht. Its the latest exercise in marrying #AI with voice synthesis.

They are starting by a major building block of it which is the emotional and expressive human-like synthetic speech generation and ability to clone any voice with perfect resemblance.

While the voices may be convincing, the script is still weird and disjointed.

https://www.afr.com/technology/when-fake-steve-jobs-and-fake-joe-rogan-made-a-podcast-20221012-p5bpas

At the America's Got Talent final, four mostly unheard of vocalists performed on stage while, due to advanced AI camera technology, they were simultaneously turned into deepfake Elvis Presleys and Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Sof\u00eda Vergara look-alikes on the large screen behind them.

https://www.afr.com/technology/deepfakes-are-coming-to-your-tv-and-your-work-meetings-20220926-p5bl70

If Beyonce or Taylor Swift's songs were produced by software instead of a famous musician, would they be as popular? Because fans want more than just the music from Taylor Swift, she has over 227 million Instagram followers. A living, breathing human is necessary to provide this.

Oftentimes, when collectors purchase pieces from the visual arts world, they are buying into the story as much as they are the artist.

Although chess computers are better players than people and frequently more interesting, matches between machines generally garner less public interest than contests involving Magnus Carlsen.

"It's doubtful that he wrote any of it". AI and human creators will likely collaborate often, with the humans being presented as the face of the partnership to the public.

People will be most interested in AI-generated art when the look of it and the personality of its human companion seem to match.

If a human manages or trains a group of AI creators, will that be attractive to fans? Such concepts definitely have boundaries.

It's easy to picture an NBA with human coaches and powerful robots that are better at dunks and three-pointers than the best humans.

https://www.afr.com/technology/taylor-swift-will-always-be-bigger-than-ai-20221012-p5bp9w

"In the Bay Area, in the universities and at Google, OpenAI are regarded as clowns," says a scathing Filip Piekniewski, a leading robotics scientist and entrepreneur, who wrote a viral post predicting the collapse of the current #AI boom two years ago.

"If you step back and look at this company, what is their product? Their product is PR stunts that cost millions. That's it. It's a magician and a circus." Musk himself quit OpenAI's board 18 months ago, citing potential conflicts of interest with his Tesla car company.

Machine learning scientist Jeffrey Ng, head of AI the Founders Forum network in London, notes "a little temperance investment", but is confident that judicious use of deep learning techniques, in the right context, can increase #productivity.

https://www.afr.com/technology/is-ai-it-just-a-giant-waste-of-money-20191028-p534uc

GPT-3 may have learned how to generate text, but it does not understand the implications of its output. The system that is produced could not only generate sentences with the word 'red' but also use the color red. We could start to construct a system that has true language comprehension instead of one based on probability.

GPT-3 is an abbreviation for Generative Pre-trained Transformer version three. It's a machine-learning system that can create text very quickly and with little human input.

One researcher asked GPT-3: "How many eyes does my foot have?" GPT-3 replied: "Your foot has two eyes." GPT-3 needs a human babysitter at all times to tell it what kinds of things it shouldn't say.

People have started new enterprises because GPT-3 has made something practicable that wasn't before, amidst the hype.

In response to philosophical comments on tech forum Hacker News arguing that AI model GPT-3 has consciousness, the model itself wrote a rebuttal: "To be clear, I am not a person".

https://www.afr.com/technology/is-ai-finally-closing-in-on-human-intelligence-20201117-p56f7g

Some companies that have access to large amounts of user data, powerful computing resources and AI scientists as well as a willingness to share research publicly have started making great strides in fields like speech recognition and image analysis.

Artificial intelligence can help scientists solve the world's "Hard problems", like climate change, says Alphabet Inc's chairman, Eric Schmidt.

If artificial intelligence is achieved by whoever can amass the most data and computing power, then a significant part of the future economy could be managed by just a few companies.

https://www.afr.com/policy/ai-smarter-machines-are-the-whitecollar-future-20160121-gmaqcp

In recent months, researchers have demonstrated that computer systems can grasp the complexities of language in general terms and then utilize this knowledge to complete a variety of specific tasks. These systems, constructed rapidly one after the other by various independent research organizations such as Google and the Allen Institute, could improve digital assistants like Alexa and Google Home along with software that automatically examines documents inside businesses such as law firms, hospitals, banks etc.

If researchers give BERT questions with their answers, it learns to answer similar questions by itself.

Sebastian Ruder, a researcher based in Ireland who collaborates with Fast.ai, sees the arrival of systems like BERT as a "Wake-up call" for him and other AI researchers because they had assumed language technology had hit a ceiling.

https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/why-we-want-a-machine-that-can-finish-our-sentences-20181121-h185t5