AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Meer dan de helft van de Nederlanders maakt inmiddels af en toe gebruik van AI. Het gebruik van kunstmatige intelligentie, bijvoorbeeld voor het verbeteren van teksten of bewerken van foto's, is in een jaar tijd met 12 procent toegenomen. Dat meldt ING op basis van eigen onderzoek.

"Tegelijkertijd groeit de bezorgdheid over de gevolgen voor werkgelegenheid: 41 procent verwacht dat AI per saldo banen zal kosten. Toch vreest bijna niemand voor het compleet verdwijnen van zijn eigen baan", stellen de onderzoekers. Werkenden denken wel steeds vaker dat AI hun baan zal veranderen.

Vier op de tien ondervraagden vrezen dat AI een gevaar voor de samenleving kan vormen. Tegelijkertijd ziet bijna de helft (48 procent) AI als kans. "Positief of negatief, veel consumenten verwachten in elk geval dat AI hun leven verregaand zal gaan veranderen. Bijna de helft van de consumenten verwacht een grote impact van AI op hun dagelijks leven de komende vijf jaar."

Deskundigen van ING schatten het risico op het verlies van een groot aantal banen niet zo groot. "Allereerst zal de verdere opmars van AI tijd kosten en de impact stapsgewijs voelbaar worden. De arbeidsmarkt zal dus ook tijd hebben zich hieraan aan te passen", staat in het rapport.

Daarnaast heeft de Nederlandse arbeidsmarkt een relatief gunstige uitgangspositie om juist de vruchten van AI te plukken. "Onze hoogwaardige diensteneconomie met een relatief hoog aantal hooggeschoolden lijkt bij uitstek geschikt om te profiteren van het toepassen van AI."

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Figma has filed to go public on the NYSE under the ticker "FIG," marking one of the most anticipated IPOs in recent years following its scrapped $20 billion acquisition by Adobe. CNBC reports: Revenue in the first quarter increased 46% to $228.2 million from $156.2 million in the same period a year ago, according to Figma's prospectus. The company recorded a net income of $44.9 million, compared to $13.5 million a year earlier. As of March 31, Figma had 1,031 customers contributing at least $100,000 a year to annual revenue, up 47% from a year earlier. Clients include Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Netflix. More than half of revenue comes from outside the U.S. Figma didn't say how many shares it plans to sell in the IPO. The company was valued at $12.5 billion in a tender offer last year, and in April it announced that it had confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC. [...]

Figma was founded in 2012 by CEO Dylan Field, 33, and Evan Wallace, and is based in San Francisco. The company had 1,646 employees as of March 31. Before establishing Figma, Field spent over two years at Brown University, where he met Wallace. Field then took a Thiel Fellowship "to pursue entrepreneurial projects," according to the filing. The two-year program that Founders Fund partner Peter Thiel established in 2011 gives young entrepreneurs a $200,000 grant along with support from founders and investors, according to an online description. Field is the biggest individual owner of Figma, with 56.6 million Class B shares and 51.1% of voting power ahead of the IPO. He said in a letter to investors that it was time for Figma to buck the "trend of many amazing companies staying privately indefinitely." "Some of the obvious benefits such as good corporate hygiene, brand awareness, liquidity, stronger currency and access to capital markets apply," wrote Field. "More importantly, I like the idea of our community sharing in the ownership of Figma -- and the best way to accomplish this is through public markets."

As a public company, Field said investors should "expect us to take big swings," including through acquisitions.

In April, Figma bought the assets and team of an unnamed technology company for $14 million, according to the filing. They also registered over 13 million users per month, one-third of which are designers.

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XScreenSaver 6.11 is out now. This is a Unix-only release -- this version contains preliminary support for Wayland.

This is maybe not entirely ready for prime time, but I figured I'd get it out there so that some people who actually understand Wayland can poke at it.

1. This version only supports blanking, not locking.

2. It requires compositor support for either the "org_kde_kwin_idle" or "ext_idle_notifier_v1" protocols. That means "everything but GNOME", I think.

3. Fading in and out, and grabbing screen images, require the program "grim" to be installed, and work. And it does not work under GNOME or KDE.

Things I could use your help with:

1. Tell me if you have a Wayland system on which it does not work, besides GNOME.

2. I have not tested "ext_idle_notifier_v1". Please let me know if you have a system that supports that. Alternately, if it is the case that there are no compositors that provide "ext_idle_notifier_v1" that do not also provide "org_kde_kwin_idle", then I can just remove it.

3. Figure out a better (or dare I dream, faster) way to get screen shots than running "grim".

4. Figure out this GNOME and KDE shit, because I'm probably gonna just say "screw those guys" otherwise.

5. Write me some sample Wayland code that places two windows on the screen, one atop the other, and changes the alpha on the front window to make the back window appear to fade to black.

6. I have barely begun to think about locking, but probably "ext-session-lock-v1" is going to continue to be the only game in town, even though it is absolutely the wrong way to go about any of this, FFS. Anyway, it takes a list of surfaces which are the only ones displayed while locked. Possibly we can get the underlying Wayland surface out of the X11 saver windows and feed those in to it? I guess the xscreensaver-auth window would have to be re-parented to under one of those.

   I have little interest in working on this part, so if you want XScreenSaver to be able to lock your screen, you might wanna pitch in here.

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