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"One of the great hopes for artificial intelligence—at least, among workers—is that it will ease workloads, freeing people up for more high-level, creative pursuits. So far, the opposite is happening, new data show.

In fact, AI is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, according to an analysis of 164,000 workers’ digital work activity. The data, from workforce analytics and productivity-tracking software company ActivTrak, covers more than 443 million hours of work across 1,111 employers, making it one of the biggest studies of AI’s effects on work habits to date.

Examining AI users’ digital activity 180 days before and after they began using such tools on the job, ActivTrak found AI intensified activity across nearly every category: The time they spent on email, messaging and chat apps more than doubled, while their use of business-management tools, such as human-resources or accounting software, rose 94%.

Meanwhile, the amount of time AI users devoted to focused, uninterrupted work—the kind of concentration often required for figuring out complex problems, writing formulas, creating and strategizing—fell 9%, compared with nearly no change for nonusers.

“It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency,” said Gabriela Mauch, ActivTrak’s chief customer officer and head of its productivity lab. “It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen.”

Such habits aren’t exactly what AI evangelists have predicted. A number of tech and business leaders, from Bill Gates to JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon have suggested that AI could ultimately lead people to work less, not more, and result in a shorter workweek. Elon Musk has said that, within 20 years, advancements in AI and robots could even make work optional."

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-isnt-lightening-workloads-its-making-them-more-intense-e417dd2c

#AI #GenerativeAI #Automation #Productivity #Acceleration

Mikhaíl Ilín (@ilin_pt)

LLM 가중치를 실리콘에 직접 넣어 기존 범용 GPU 기반 추론보다 1000배 빠르다는 주장과 매우 빠른 데모를 소개하며, 'weights in silicon' 방식의 하드웨어 가속이 큰 성능 혁신을 가져올 수 있음을 강조합니다.

https://x.com/ilin_pt/status/2029931657369674101

#llm #inference #hardware #silicon #acceleration

Bergson, la durée et l’accélération technique : quand le temps vécu s’efface

Pour Bergson, la durée – le temps vécu, subjectif – s’oppose au temps mesuré des horloges. L’ accélération technique moderne écrase cette durée, sacrifiant la maturation et la mémoire profonde au profit de l’instantanéité. #Bergson #temps #accélération #mémoire #philosophie #temporalité

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/bergson-la-duree-et-lacceleration-technique-quand-le-temps-vecu-sefface/

Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

https://github.com/Frikallo/parakeet.cpp

#HackerNews #ParakeetCpp #ASR #CPlusPlus #MetalGPU #Acceleration #HackerNews

L’Edito de Raphaël Legendre : L'inquiétant retard du "made in Europe"

https://vid.freedif.org/w/tCmcdkxum3E3gKDfSpdFsP