How often do you use AI in your job?

[Anonymous]

I’ve tried but it’s usually wrong. I am an accountant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lawyer- I use it to help me re write emails. It helps with my tone. I’m female and have always struggled with being too nice and taking on too much work. And then I swung to being too rude in emails. AI gives a good balanced middle tone.

The lawyers in this thread who are being so negative about AI simply don’t understand how vast it can be in its uses. It is such an awesome tool even if it can’t do a “legal” analysis. It can do the first draft of something like a blog post, it can create meeting minutes from a transcript, it can create detailed notes from a transcript, it can create a full PowerPoint presentation from a compliance document, it can help turn text into tables and develop databases, it can help create really advanced excel tools to do analyses, it can teach you how to create advanced templates. It’s amazing.

At least at my law firm, we have an AI Taskforce and there are very clear rules about us giving AI attorney-client privileged information. So we couldn't feed AI a transcript to create notes or minutes, we can't feed it text about our clients, etc. And to get hired at my firm you have to submit a writing sample so every attorney CAN write.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lawyer- I use it to help me re write emails. It helps with my tone. I’m female and have always struggled with being too nice and taking on too much work. And then I swung to being too rude in emails. AI gives a good balanced middle tone.

The lawyers in this thread who are being so negative about AI simply don’t understand how vast it can be in its uses. It is such an awesome tool even if it can’t do a “legal” analysis. It can do the first draft of something like a blog post, it can create meeting minutes from a transcript, it can create detailed notes from a transcript, it can create a full PowerPoint presentation from a compliance document, it can help turn text into tables and develop databases, it can help create really advanced excel tools to do analyses, it can teach you how to create advanced templates. It’s amazing.

At least at my law firm, we have an AI Taskforce and there are very clear rules about us giving AI attorney-client privileged information. So we couldn't feed AI a transcript to create notes or minutes, we can't feed it text about our clients, etc. And to get hired at my firm you have to submit a writing sample so every attorney CAN write.

This only means your firm is too cheap to purchase an enterprise use that will not send data back to the company. No one at your firm is going to figure out how to actually get more productivity out of AI and you guys will fall behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve tried but it’s usually wrong. I am an accountant.

AI is notoriously bad at working with numbers or math. Large language models specialize in approximation not exact answers. This is why it’s so terrible at legal work too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve tried but it’s usually wrong. I am an accountant.

AI is notoriously bad at working with numbers or math. Large language models specialize in approximation not exact answers. This is why it’s so terrible at legal work too.

I am not sure, but your problem with AI may be between the keyboard and the chair. AI crushes left-brained tasks and is already optimizing its performance with quantum computing. Google HSBC and IBM’s partnership using quantum to predict bond trade prices.

[Anonymous]

The major push to use AI for anything and everything is how you know it's worthless. If it were useful, it wouldn't need it.

[Anonymous]

I use it all the time to teach me how to use software better and write spreadsheet formulas and code for me for google web apps and such (I'm not a computer person but it's wonderful for automating/improving so many things I used to do more or less by hand or with much clunkier formulas).

[Anonymous]

Never.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lawyer- I use it to help me re write emails. It helps with my tone. I’m female and have always struggled with being too nice and taking on too much work. And then I swung to being too rude in emails. AI gives a good balanced middle tone.

The lawyers in this thread who are being so negative about AI simply don’t understand how vast it can be in its uses. It is such an awesome tool even if it can’t do a “legal” analysis. It can do the first draft of something like a blog post, it can create meeting minutes from a transcript, it can create detailed notes from a transcript, it can create a full PowerPoint presentation from a compliance document, it can help turn text into tables and develop databases, it can help create really advanced excel tools to do analyses, it can teach you how to create advanced templates. It’s amazing.

my assessment is that it can take substandard product and get it to plausible-sounding mediocrity pretty quickly.

so if you're someone who needed to be coaxed through picking a topic and then creating an outline and refining the outline and then eventually writing a paper over several weeks of high school or college— i can see how AI might seem miraculous.

but the effort i have put into actually refining the results of AI is generally more than I would put into just... writing in the first place. i'm happy that you've found a tool that helps you.

[Anonymous]

I use it all of the time. I work in a newsroom and it is helpful for getting me started on headlines and social language.

[Anonymous]

Architect - no AI but if it was capable to designing renovations, it would probably do a better one than the monstrosity that my boss designed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lawyer- I use it to help me re write emails. It helps with my tone. I’m female and have always struggled with being too nice and taking on too much work. And then I swung to being too rude in emails. AI gives a good balanced middle tone.

The lawyers in this thread who are being so negative about AI simply don’t understand how vast it can be in its uses. It is such an awesome tool even if it can’t do a “legal” analysis. It can do the first draft of something like a blog post, it can create meeting minutes from a transcript, it can create detailed notes from a transcript, it can create a full PowerPoint presentation from a compliance document, it can help turn text into tables and develop databases, it can help create really advanced excel tools to do analyses, it can teach you how to create advanced templates. It’s amazing.

my assessment is that it can take substandard product and get it to plausible-sounding mediocrity pretty quickly.

so if you're someone who needed to be coaxed through picking a topic and then creating an outline and refining the outline and then eventually writing a paper over several weeks of high school or college— i can see how AI might seem miraculous.

but the effort i have put into actually refining the results of AI is generally more than I would put into just... writing in the first place. i'm happy that you've found a tool that helps you.

If you are spending extensive time refining drafts that AI produces, you simply don’t understand how to use the tool or generate appropriate prompts. This is like saying a screwdriver is faulty because you are using a flathead when you actually needed a Phillips. It’s a tool and if other people are making use of it and you can’t, it’s not because you are more skilled. It’s because you don’t know how to use the tool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve tried but it’s usually wrong. I am an accountant.

AI is notoriously bad at working with numbers or math. Large language models specialize in approximation not exact answers. This is why it’s so terrible at legal work too.

I am not sure, but your problem with AI may be between the keyboard and the chair. AI crushes left-brained tasks and is already optimizing its performance with quantum computing. Google HSBC and IBM’s partnership using quantum to predict bond trade prices.

Those tools are not the large language models that people are provided in most regular workplaces. LLMs are pretty bad at math but they can coach you into using excel at a more advanced level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lawyer- I use it to help me re write emails. It helps with my tone. I’m female and have always struggled with being too nice and taking on too much work. And then I swung to being too rude in emails. AI gives a good balanced middle tone.

The lawyers in this thread who are being so negative about AI simply don’t understand how vast it can be in its uses. It is such an awesome tool even if it can’t do a “legal” analysis. It can do the first draft of something like a blog post, it can create meeting minutes from a transcript, it can create detailed notes from a transcript, it can create a full PowerPoint presentation from a compliance document, it can help turn text into tables and develop databases, it can help create really advanced excel tools to do analyses, it can teach you how to create advanced templates. It’s amazing.

I don't need to do any of those tasks.

There are actual uses for AI in law, but they are narrow and not usually core legal work (e.g., you don't have to be a lawyer to summarize a transcript). The insistence that we find ways to use it is annoying. It's like insisting I use a screwdriver to cook dinner, and saying I'm the problem if I can't figure out how that would be useful. And then simultaneously saying screwdrivers will replace chefs.

As someone else said, useful tools get used. If your customers don't think it's useful, the problem isn't the customer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Almost never. I’m a lawyer and all my experiences with it have been bad. The only exception is to get a non-client writing project started (like an alert for the firm blog). It can help break through writers block.

+1. AI gets so many things wrong that it’s a complete waste of my time. As for email tone, I already know how to adjust my tone to fit my audience. That’s my job.

Everyone THINKS they are great at this- like everyone THINKS they are great drivers. I’m sure YOU are wonderful. It’s the other 99% that are bad but think they are good that I’m talking about.