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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My employer is pushing hard for us to start using AI in our daily work. They've made investments in the IT aspect of it and now they are heavily investing in training us all in how to use it. But no one is clear on how exactly this can help us with even the most basic things, much less imagine how it will revolutionize anyting. Is this just me getting old and not knowing how this tool can improve things, or do the rest of you also [b]not understand how this is supposed to increase our productivity and make our lives better?[/b]
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AI is not meant to “make YOUR life better,” OP.

AI is meant to replace you.  Meaning:  you will not have your job soon.

If you have a position which can be done remotely, AI can do your job.[/quote]

I work at a university and most departments have an administrator who makes a big deal every summer about updating the textbook orders -- making sure the syllabi and orders at the bookstore link to the latest edition of the textbook, making sure faculty know there is a new edition available, etc.  Presumably there's also someone at the bookstore who makes a big deal out of this every summer too.  Last week I was sent an excel spreadsheet and instructed to (as the instructor) make sure the edition listed was correct, and otherwise to update it to the correct ISBN, etc  Instead of going to the publisher's website and checking all the stuff, I fed the whole darned spreadsheet to the AI, said "check that all of these textbooks have the correct edition, and if not, give the new ISBN, etc."  Basically, the AI did the administrator's entire job for the month of June in like 10 minutes.  As the administrator I would have then asked it to email all the faculty whose textbook has changed and inform them, etc.  I have the feeling that the administrator whose job this currently is is NOT going to let anyone know you can feed the whole thing to an AI and do your month's long job in ten minutes.  I'm sure this is true in many enterprises at the moment. [/quote]

This is absolutely the case. I have some issues I work on that require the manipulation of large amounts of data, similar to what you're talking about. Some of the people in my group manually enter every line of this information, hence it takes them forever to do it. I wrote a quick and easy program that reads it all and then does what I need with it. I can do in 5 minutes what it would take them five days to do. But they enjoyed zoning out and entering this data so they don't want to change. The problem is, clients don't want to pay for that time anymore. [/quote]

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