Will AI Replace Me or Work With Me?
I work a lot with AIs, and over the past year, it’s shifted from being a tool I occasionally try to something closer to an assistant.
Sometimes I ask myself if my job can be done better, faster and smarter by AI in the future. Including the boring parts, like checking contracts or filling in a marketing budget. If I still have a chance, compared to AI’s growing capabilities.
In a recent article, Kalanick, Uber’s cofounder, said that it’s more important to build tools than to just use them.
And he’s right. When you look at what technology can do better than a human, the gap is getting smaller and smaller every day. Using the tools is not enough now.
A few weeks ago, ChatGPT started generating images on its own (until now it used external tools, like DALL-E). And the images are not bad at all, depending on how good your prompt is.
There are tools like loveable.dev that generate your app or landing page in seconds, based on just a few words. No need to hire developers!
Other AIs are good at spying, the nice kind. They join online meetings, take notes, and turn everything into well-structured memos your boss can read later. In some of my recent calls, I was waiting alone for the other humans while three different AI notetakers quietly show up as participants and suddenly we were a crowd of four.
The future is coming extremely fast.
Many companies are still debating post-pandemic hybrid work policies, when actually the world has shifted so much in the past 6 months that some of these topics no longer feel relevant.
Right now, AI does only bits and pieces. It doesn’t seem able to connect them into a full job. But when that will happen… well, I do hope I’ll be able to convince it I’m still useful.
Like someone joked: better be nice to AI now; you never know what it’ll remember in six months when it’s your boss.
Anca Serban, Head of Marketing @ Pluria
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