Monday Byte [6]

Monday Byte: 8 Bits of information to kick start your week

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Hi there! 👋

On this edition:

1. LinkedIn boosts your job search with AI 🤖

   1. LinkedIn Wants Its AI Bot to Help Find You a Job After You Lose Your Job to AI (Gizmodo)

      1. Premium members of the platform now have access to a chatbot that through some questions, will help them find the jobs that fit best their interests and experience. 🤝

2. Do you need a digital doppelgänger? 👯

   1. What is a digital twin? And why is everyone suddenly building one? (Fast Company)

      1. Digital twins are very common on industries like manufacturing, where through simulations, a team can infer if, for example, a car can protect its passengers during a high-speed crash. Something similar may happen with human digital twins, giving the opportunity to researchers to identify what may happen to a person under a new medical treatment, or something similar. 🧬

3. New from Apple: faster processors and new computers 🍎

   1. Apple’s October Scary Fast Event: Everything revealed about the new MacBook Pro, iMac and M3 chips (Tech Crunch)

      1. The new M3 processors are supposedly 30% faster than the M1, and this event also meant a farewell to the Touch bar in Mac Book Pros. ⚡️

4. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris aim to place guardrails for AI 👩🏻‍⚖️ 📑

   1. FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (The White House)

      1. While AI regulations are already moving forward in Europe, the US just started setting up mechanisms for: Creating new safety and security standards for AI, Protecting consumer privacy, Advancing equity and civil rights, and so on. 🇺🇸

5. Elon Musk now has his own LLM and it’s trained on Tweets 😅

   1. Announcing Grok! (Twitter)

      1. Premium X users can ask to join the beta of this conversational model that has real-time knowledge as it’s continuously learning from the X platform. 🤖

6. The Beatles just released a new song thanks to AI 🎧🎸

   1. How Beatles producer Giles Martin used AI to reunite the band for ‘Now and Then’ (Fast Company)

      1. No, no synthetic version of The Beatles was made; the producers used AI to isolate Lennon’s vocals from an old Cassette and use them for a new song. 🎶

7. Is this the end of remote work, or a boost to a work-from-home forever? 💔

   1. WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says (Reuters)

      1. This company became super famous for charging the lead for digital nomads, co-working spaces and remote jobs, even getting its own movie in Netflix. What’s next?

8. Are workers as unhappy as ever? 😭

   1. If you hate your job, you’re not alone. Everyone is experiencing the ‘Great Gloom’ (Fast Company)

      1. If more people than ever can work from home or almost anywhere, why do studies point out to a deep low on employee happiness? 📉

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