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Kristin Dahl@kristindahl · 2d
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60 Minutes shows workers training AI with their career expertise

Some Americans are working to improve artificial intelligence, teaching it the skills and knowledge accrued over the course of a career.

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This past week in Washington, America's tech titans met with President Trump to talk about, well, the future of humanity. Specifically, will AI, artificial intelligence, mark the end of civilization as we know it? Only slightly less grave and only slightly less depressing, there's a related, more immediate question. Will AI take our jobs? That right there, not me. That was AI. So, what it is, we don't exempt ourselves in wondering, is any line of work safe? So far this year, US companies have cited AI as the number one reason for layoffs. AI, after all, doesn't sleep or take sick days. Is this technology simply going to transform how and where we work, much the same way other workplace revolutions did? Or is this one different? Is the great job apocalypse upon us? Here in this nondescript office in downtown San Francisco, >> [laughter] >> these 20-somethings are designing the future of your workplace. You may not have heard of Mercor, but it's quickly become a leader in a booming new industry built around supercharging the already supercharged rise of artificial intelligence. >> We were in January last year about 20 people. >> How many now? >> Uh now it's 400 people in San Francisco, yeah. >> Brendan Foody is Mercor's CEO. It's now a multi-billion-dollar company, and he's now a 23-year-old billionaire. Backstory. Four years ago, ChatGPT came

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