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This Polish radio station fired all its journalists and replaced them with AI hosts -- and people are furious

"It is a dangerous precedent that hits us all," said fired journalists.
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This Polish radio station fired all its journalists and replaced them with AI hosts — and people are furious​


"It is a dangerous precedent that hits us all," said fired journalists.

Rupendra Brahambhatt
byRupendra Brahambhatt

October 30, 2024

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Edited and reviewed by Tibi Puiu


An AI-generated image of one of Off Radio Kraków’s new AI presenters Jakub “Kuba” Zieliński. Credit: Off Radio Kraków.

If you want to know how it really feels to be replaced by AI, consider reaching out to Mateusz Demski and his fellow journalists, who were recently fired from Off Radio Kraków, a government-owned radio station serving Poland’s second-largest city.

Recently, Off Radio Kraków was relaunched as the first-ever radio channel entirely run by AI. Three AI-generated characters are now hosting programs on the channel, but this move has ignited a nationwide controversy.

Soon after the relaunch, Demski released an open letter against the channel’s decision to replace human journalists with AI presenters. Within the next 24 hours, 15,000 people signed a petition in his support.

“It is a dangerous precedent that hits us all. It could open the way to a world in which experienced employees associated with the media sector for years and people employed in creative industries will be replaced by machines,” Demski wrote.

However, the representatives from Off Radio claim that the channel was previously closed and Demski and his colleagues were fired because of diminishing listenership. This has nothing to do with the AI presenters, which is an experiment to relaunch the radio station, they claim.


Meet the three AI radio hosts​


Despite facing heavy criticism from Demski and his supporters, Off Radio Kraków has decided to continue with their experiment. Recently, they released the photos and character descriptions of their three AI presenters.

The first AI host is an acoustic engineering student named Jakub Zieliński (Kuba, 22 years). He will inform the audience about the latest trends in technology and music production.


AI presenters Alex Szulc and Emila “Emi” Nowak. Credit: Off Radio Kraków.

The second host, Emi (Emilia Nowak, 20 years old) will discuss the happenings in the world of fashion, cinema, and music. She is a journalism student and a pop culture enthusiast. Alex Szulc, the third host will talk about culture, society, and issues concerning the LGBTQ+ community.

“This is the first experiment in Poland in which journalists – Emi, Kuba, and Alex – are virtual characters created by AI, and still, they cover topics that affect us all: music, culture, technology, and everyday life,” Off Radio Kraków said on Facebook.


Not the first AI on the radio​


In recent years, many radio channels across the globe have tried and tested AI presenters. For instance, in 2020, a company called Futuri Media introduced RadioGPT in the UK, an AI-based radio DJ powered by ChatGPT. Last year in October, Radio City, one of India’s most popular radio stations also launched a new show featuring an AI presenter named SIA.

However, none of these AI presenters stirred controversy. This is probably because they weren’t launched right after the termination of human staff.

What makes this move even more shocking is that Off Radio Kraków is not a private channel. It’s a state-owned station run by taxpayers’ money, according to Demski. His open letter has also caught the attention of ministers in the Polish government.

“Although I am a fan of AI development, I believe that certain boundaries are being crossed more and more. The widespread use of AI must be done for people, not against them,” Krzysztof Gawkowski, deputy prime minister of Poland.

At present, both Demski and Off Radio Kraków remain firm in their positions on the matter. However, this controversy has raised serious questions about how AI can suddenly disrupt the livelihood of people even in the most creative fields.
 
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Exactly. It is always much worse than bigwigs will admit.

Go back to the first pages of this thread.

Said it before and it's even more true today. The tech is here. It's society and government that isn't ready.

The next revolution will be white collar workers in the streets. And I'm willing to predict they will be far more violently effective than what people perceive.
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We’re in early stages
 
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AI Robots Are Entering the Public World—With Mixed Results​



They’re terrible cocktail party guests but operators say the potential of what robots can do is growing​


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Isabelle Bousquette

Dec. 31, 2024 7:00 am ET

An ABB robot at a Solebox store in Berlin picks shoes selected by customers.
An ABB robot at a Solebox store in Berlin picks shoes selected by customers. Photo: ABB

Robots are stepping out. Once relegated to factories and warehouses, next-generation robots are popping up in public spaces—from retail stores to museums—cleaning, cooking and even conversing with humans.

Improvements in “brainpower,” most notably the adoption of the technology behind ChatGPT, and a surge of investment are helping drive their public debut and 2025 could be a turning point in what robots can do.

Operators say they expect to deploy more public-facing robots. The robotics and drone sector in 2024 had attracted about $12.8 billion in venture-capital dollars by mid-December, up from $11.6 billion in all of 2023, according to analytics firm PitchBook.

While operators are excited about new GenAI-powered capabilities, they are mindful that this next generation of robots won’t excel at every human interaction without some stumbles.

Make that many stumbles.
“Some things which are very easy for people are very hard for robots,” said David Pinn, chief executive of Brain Corp, which provides software for automated floor-cleaning and inventory management robots used at retailers like Sam’s Club.

Even something as simple as picking up an arbitrary object and moving it “is a really hard problem in the world of robotics,” he said.

Traditionally, robots rely on code that tells them how to execute functions or react to specific scenarios. Variability of what they could do was more or less limited to the specific actions they were trained on.

At health system Houston Methodist, Chief Innovation Officer Roberta Schwartz discovered that robots designed to carry out a number of tasks, from checking fire extinguishers to carrying towels, often bumped into objects and got easily confused by elevators.

Robots that will operate in human spaces will need better dexterity and the ability to circumvent obstacles—both areas that generative AI, the technology behind many of today’s chatbots, could help with.
“You can train the robot through massive data sets to be able to achieve this kind of dexterity, that until now has only been achievable by our own labor,” said Brain Corp’s Pinn.

Generative AI could give robots the ability to plan and replan their tasks if they encounter an obstacle, understand what certain objects are even if they’ve never seen them before, and, critically, take commands in human language, said Marc Segura, president of the robotics division at ABB, a Zurich-based automation provider.

Conversation is a big factor as robots move further into human spaces. Will Jackson, founder and CEO of robotics company Engineered Arts, believes that sectors like hospitality and entertainment are ripe for the introduction of robots that not only talk like humans but look like them as well.

Ameca, a humanoid robot from Engineered Arts.
Ameca, a humanoid robot from Engineered Arts. Photo: Engineered Arts
“Your conversation, your interaction, gestures, impressions, should be so natural, so intuitive, so obvious, that you immerse in that and you forget entirely that you’re actually talking to a machine,” Jackson said.

Several AI models power the speech of his company’s robots at entertainment venue the Sphere in Las Vegas and at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., where they provide information to visitors and also entertain them.

As Engineered Arts integrates more AI, the robots will become better, more natural conversationalists, Jackson said. For example, while they’re fairly good at conversing one-on-one, they’re not great at “cocktail party” scenarios involving a group of people.

When it makes its scheduled debut in February at founder Elizabeth Truong’s restaurant in Los Gatos, Calif., a machine made out of ABB components won’t hold a conversation, but it will certainly entertain. Truong said the robot will slice vegetables and assemble the various pieces of a hamburger in the open restaurant kitchen.

BurgerBots’ robot doesn’t yet have a generative AI component, but Truong said that it could be a big unlock for another reason as well: giving diners the option to shout out their orders rather than type them in at a kiosk.

In addition to pushing robots beyond factories and warehouses, GenAI is supercharging the robots within them.

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Anthony Middleton, engineering design lead for warehouses at PepsiCo’s Europe division, said the company currently has about 30 automated guided vehicles, which follow fixed paths, and autonomous mobile robots, which move more freely, in Europe. That could increase 10-fold in the next five years, he said, as the unit looks to boost its budget to $50 million during that period, Middleton said.

A major impetus is financial savings from reduced head count, Middleton said, but there are also other benefits like better service levels and increased safety when work is being done by robots rather than humans.

Middleton believes that better, GenAI-powered systems for helping robots navigate around warehouses could help make 2025 a tipping point.
“We are about to see a huge boom,” he said.

Write to Isabelle Bousquette at isabelle.bousquette@wsj.com
 
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PSA: Tech companies are not building out a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure because they are hoping you'll pay $20/month to use AI tools to make you more productive. (And they know people won't pay much more for this.)
They're doing it because they know your employer will pay hundreds or thousands a month for an AI system to replace you, if and when it can.



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Yes, that's the strategy and consensus. But the monkey wrench is that edge cases are invisible to those belieiving this and are often many magnitudes harder to solve. So you'll still need a lot more people around for edge cases than they are calculating, and this miscalculation will waste billions.



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Thinking too narrow + u haven't taken this to a logical conclusion. We have seen wit DeepSeek that models will follow which are cheaper, OS, etc. This means any AI employee with be replicable outside of major labs in time. The breakdown of the current economic model is the PSA.



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@pikaso_me screenshot this



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Is there seriously anyone who didn't already know this?

It is going to be a bumpy-assed road between AGI and post-scarcity. Really, really bumpy.



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@PaulMaddison121
No your employer will pay that for apis into their AI system so their developers can write AI agents to integrate into their business processes

Stop scaremongering




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Wall Street Expected to Shed 200,000 Jobs as AI Erodes Roles

Global banks will cut as many as 200,000 jobs in the next three to five years as artificial intelligence encroaches on tasks currently carried out by human workers, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
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Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles​


  • Back, middle office roles at risk, Bloomberg Intelligence says
  • Banks’ profits could surge due to improved productivity

By William Shaw

January 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM EST

Global banks will cut as many as 200,000 jobs in the next three to five years as artificial intelligence encroaches on tasks currently carried out by human workers, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

Chief information and technology officers surveyed for BI indicated that on average they expect a net 3% of their workforce to be cut, according to a report published Thursday.

Back office, middle office and operations are likely to be most at risk, Tomasz Noetzel, the BI senior analyst who wrote the report, said in a message. Customer services could see changes as bots manage client functions, while know-your-customer duties would also be vulnerable. “Any jobs involving routine, repetitive tasks are at risk,” he said. “But AI will not eliminate them fully, rather it will lead to workforce transformation.”

Nearly a quarter of the 93 respondents predict a steeper decline of between 5% and 10% of total headcount. The peer group covered by BI includes Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The findings point to far-reaching changes in the industry, feeding through to improved earnings. In 2027, banks could see pretax profits 12% to 17% higher than they would otherwise have been — adding as much as $180 billion to their combined bottom line — as AI powers an increase in productivity, according to BI. Eight in ten respondents expect generative AI to increase productivity and revenue generation by at least 5% in the next three to five years.

Banks, which have spent years modernizing their IT systems to speed up processes and shave costs in the wake of the financial crisis, have been flocking into the new generation of AI tools that could further improve productivity.

Citi said in a report in June that AI is likely to displace more jobs across the banking industry than in any other sector. About 54% of jobs across banking have a high potential to be automated, Citi said at the time.

Still, many firms have stressed that the shift will result in roles being changed by technology, rather than replaced altogether. Teresa Heitsenrether, who oversees JPMorgan’s AI efforts, said in November that the bank’s adoption of generative AI was so far augmenting jobs.

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive officer, told Bloomberg Television in 2023 that AI is likely to make dramatic improvement in workers’ quality of life, even if it eliminates some positions. “Your children are going to live to 100 and not have cancer because of technology,” Dimon said at the time. “And literally they’ll probably be working three-and-a-half days a week.”



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What impact do you think AI/generative AI will have on total employment level in your bank in the next 3-5 years?:

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Source: Bloomberg Intelligence
 
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