AI creates, transforms and destroys... jobs

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Researchers look at live feeds of CA mountaintops. Cal Fire, California's main firefighting agency, started using an artificial intelligence system to detect smoke from more than 1,000 camera feeds.

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We often talk about the jobs lost due to artificial intelligence. But what about the ones created or even transformed? From the gig work of training AI on good and bad answers through to designing new AI models, AI jobs are popping up like mushrooms.

Today on the Indicator, we talk to people in these new roles and consider what the bots mean for the labor market.

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