We gained’t be having The Banyan Edge Podcast this week as a result of I’m presently travelling. And alas, I’ve nowhere to correctly broadcast it.
An honest workplace setup isn’t really easy to seek out in the midst of a soccer event.
So, our moveable feast continues.
We left San Sebastián on Saturday to cross the border into the French Basque Nation and the seaside city of Biarritz. And yesterday, we circled again to San Sebastián to select up our rental automotive to drive by means of the Pyrenees to Barcelona.
My son’s soccer event, our ostensible cause for being right here within the first place, didn’t go so nicely. He discovered the laborious approach that Europeans take soccer significantly. The primary two video games had been an absolute blood bathtub.
And why am I sharing these particulars with you? (I promise that is truly going someplace.)
Fixing a World Labor Scarcity
In the event you suppose the labor scarcity is unhealthy within the U.S. (and let’s be clear. It’s.), then spend a couple of weeks in Europe. It will get a lot worse.
I had a problem with my rental automotive, and I found that it’s a metaphysical impossibility to talk to a human being on the telephone in Spain.
Within the U.S., you often need to undergo by means of a number of minutes of automated prompts that steer you away from human contact, however you’ll finally get an individual if you happen to want them. In Spain, you’ll by no means attain that customer support agent.
And hailing a taxi on a Sunday in Barcelona? Looking for an Uber?
Better of luck, and vaya con Diós, amigo.
The one strategy to “resolve” the labor scarcity problem is to improve the productiveness of present staff and to automate a number of jobs out of existence. This may occur (and is occurring) with the assistance of synthetic intelligence.
This burgeoning tech has been a significant focus of our work in The Banyan Edge for the previous few weeks.
As a result of the crux of it’s, we want AI.
AI Driver
(From MSN.)
Driverless taxis are already on the streets in San Francisco, and it’s a matter of time earlier than they unfold to different cities. It will definitely have helped me seize that taxi I wanted Sunday night time in Barcelona.
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Nonetheless, I do hope driverless taxis don’t come to Lima, Peru, anytime quickly. Solely as a result of I believe the aggressiveness of limeño drivers may very well spur AI to exterminate humanity — Terminator model.
Now, there are additionally the forms of jobs that may’t be automated away, however they’ll undoubtedly be improved.
Take soccer gamers, or any skilled athletes for that matter. (See, I informed you my rambling about youth soccer had a degree.)
Sure, I suppose we may all begin watching AI pc simulations of sporting occasions as an alternative of watching precise athletes. However that wouldn’t be enjoyable. The pleasure is in watching actual human athletes do issues that the remainder of us can solely dream of.
A lot of the service jobs surrounding sports activities can’t get replaced both. However once more, they are often improved. Take into consideration the film Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. It informed the story of how Oakland Athletics used knowledge analytics to enhance their participant scouting.
Oakland was in a position to area a aggressive crew on a shoestring finances by augmenting every little thing — from their scouting, to their offensive and defensive methods — with knowledge analytics.
In an analogous approach, AI may quickly assist coaches make higher play-by-play choices in actual time.
The Way forward for AI (And Revenue)
The prospects with AI are limitless. What couldn’t you do higher in your day-to-day life with the assistance of a full-time AI life coach to enhance your resolution making?
So far in 2023, the funding story surrounding AI has targeted on a small variety of mega-cap tech shares. And it’s attainable that development has longer to run.
However inform me, what makes extra sense: to dump much more cash into shares that already sport market caps nicely over $1 trillion, or to give attention to the up-and-coming shares on this house which are simply beginning their ascent?
Ian King’s newest analysis is targeted on the potential windfall income of AI. He predicts that by the top of this decade, this tech will improve the worldwide GDP by 50% (or as a lot as $150 trillion within the years to return).
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Regards,
Charles SizemoreChief Editor, The Banyan Edge
