AI, AI everywhere…except for you
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AI might seem like it’s everywhere, but what’s behind the hype?
When it works, AI can be like magic without the wand. It displays a level of technical capability that we think of as beyond the usually-possible based on our experience. Yet that magic is not evenly spread: researchers point to the unique challenges of AI adoption compared to other automation techniques, which can make it seem like every company except yours is innovating with AI. As with prior digital innovations, AI adoption requires structural changes to businesses: you’re not just transforming your digital operations, you’re transforming the entire way your company works. This is a wholesale change in what skills are required and how they are distributed through an organization.
This could result in a smaller workforce overall—so how to enable true AI symbiosis that means more meaningful and fulfilling work (or well-supported and evenly distributed leisure—see our ‘four day week’ postcard) for everyone? Even for businesses that want to make the most of AI’s power, researcher’s recommendations are to focus on workers’ intrinsic motivations and invest not only in compute power, but in the power of the people who will be collaborating with these systems.?
"Aboukhadijeh quickly discovered that Copilot was good, almost unsettlingly so. He would begin typing a line of code, and within a few seconds the AI would figure out where he was headed—then, boom, the next four or five full lines would show up as light gray text, which he could accept by hitting Tab. When he saw it produce clean code that did exactly what he was intending, he found it a bit uncanny. “How is it getting these predictions?” he recalls wondering. “Some of them are really eerie.” (Wired)
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"Such obstacles mean we are witnessing two-speed adoption in which AI can seem to be everywhere except our own organisations. Yet AI is ever more essential to compete effectively, offering zero marginal cost and rapid scalability." (FT)