I am software engineer Kent Beck (” extreme programming. “I was reluctant to try ChatGPT,” he tweeted. “Today I overcame that reluctance. Now I know why I was reluctant. 90% of my skills are worth just $0. The remaining 10% of my leverage is gone.” 1000 times up. need to be readjusted. ” I was flipping through the new report and was reminded of this (bit.ly/3BGbIby) on AI and the future of work from Microsoft WorkLab. There were some interesting facts there. More than half of an office worker’s normal working time was spent communicating through emails, meetings, chats, and more. The remaining 43% was spent on actual creative tasks, and a lot of it was around creating spreadsheets. , documents and slides in various formats to present at conferences. No wonder more than his two-thirds of workers complained that they didn’t have time to focus uninterrupted on the job. I tend to sympathize with this. I have been a corporate citizen for over 20 years, but have been a “sole proprietorship” for the last few years. The struggles of being an entrepreneur are endless, but my productivity has multiplied unencumbered by countless meetings discussing the same old issues. In the routine of work, the same information is presented to different people in different formats, leaving virtually no time for deep thought. .
I am software engineer Kent Beck (” extreme programming. “I was reluctant to try ChatGPT,” he tweeted. “Today I overcame that reluctance. Now I know why I was reluctant. 90% of my skills are worth just $0. The remaining 10% of my leverage is gone.” 1000 times up. need to be readjusted. ” I was flipping through the new report and was reminded of this (bit.ly/3BGbIby) on AI and the future of work from Microsoft WorkLab. There were some interesting facts there. More than half of an office worker’s normal working time was spent communicating through emails, meetings, chats, and more. The remaining 43% was spent on actual creative tasks, and a lot of it was around creating spreadsheets. , documents and slides in various formats to present at conferences. No wonder more than his two-thirds of workers complained that they didn’t have time to focus uninterrupted on the job. I tend to sympathize with this. I have been a corporate citizen for over 20 years, but have been a “sole proprietorship” for the last few years. The struggles of being an entrepreneur are endless, but my productivity has multiplied unencumbered by countless meetings discussing the same old issues. In the routine of work, the same information is presented to different people in different formats, leaving virtually no time for deep thought. .
As the tsunami of generative AI sweeps across industries and offices, I believe it is this aspect of corporate life that will have the greatest impact. We often confuse work with work, not considering it as an industry per se, even though work is a multi-trillion dollar industry. We are rightly concerned about how AI will affect our work, but we tend to ignore how AI will affect our work. While researching this, he came across another post on LinkedIn. There was a great way he broke down the work into three categories. The first thing you need to do is activity, it’s about your role: accountant, programmer, marketer, journalist, etc. the second is where you are show, slides, charts, spreadsheets, code, summaries and more. The third is if necessary. createor do creative tasks such as essays, recipes, code, and sales pitches.
As the tsunami of generative AI sweeps across industries and offices, I believe it is this aspect of corporate life that will be most impacted. We often confuse work with work, not considering it as an industry per se, even though work is a multi-trillion dollar industry. We are rightly concerned about how AI will affect our work, but we tend to ignore how AI will affect our work. While researching this, he came across another post on LinkedIn. There was a great way he broke down the work into three categories. The first thing you need to do is activity, it’s about your role: accountant, programmer, marketer, journalist, etc. the second is where you are show, slides, charts, spreadsheets, code, summaries and more. The third is if necessary. createor do creative tasks such as essays, recipes, code, and sales pitches.
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of show Probably the most annoying and repetitive part for workers. Good visualization and presentation are important, but they are often time consuming and tedious. This is where Generative AI comes into play, with innovations like Microsoft Copilot to build slides, charts, and documents on the fly, or convert content from one format (such as a document) to another, like a slide deck. You can also As we have noticed, ChatGPT and its ilk are fairly adept at cognitive tasks, and thus have the potential to assist humans in his third domain of work: creative tasks. Copy and Jasper help create great marketing collateral, Stable Diffusion and Dall-E2 create great images for artists and designers, Jukebox helps create advertising jingles, and GitHub Copilot creates solid code. . For AI to produce the best work, at least not for now, human workers need to perfect its output. This will allow you and me to be more focused. activity For example, being a star investigative journalist, or ten times as many programmers, creative marketers, and methodical accountants are part of the job. In a way, this allows us to go back to the origins of work, leaving mundane and repetitive tasks to AI tools and spending much more time on either highly cognitive or intensive manual labor. You will be able to spend productively.
However, there is a flip side to delegating basic work to AI. There are many human workers doing these jobs for a living, including customer service representatives, basic programmers, and payroll workers. These jobs are at risk as generative AI permeates the entire organization. Good examples include Vodafone, which wants to cut jobs by nearly half and leverage AI instead, and IBM, which has halted some hiring efforts for the same reason. This is where we humans need to step up and learn how to work with AI, developing what the WorkLab report calls “AI aptitude.” We were good at working with innovative technology. We learned how to use tools such as fire and fire. Personal computers and the Internet are used to improve our work and create new jobs for humans. We must do the same with this powerful technology and use it to lift ourselves up from the mundane and monotonous. AI is not taking our lives. It can do the job, but other humans with AI can do it, so we have to choose which of the two he is.
Jaspreet Bindra is a technology expert, author of ‘The Tech Whisperer’ and currently pursuing a master’s degree in AI and ethics at the University of Cambridge.
