AI & The future of Work
Will AI diversify human thinking or replace it?
I recently contributed to an article in The Economist: AI may not be bad news for workers, which looks at some of the implications of the applications of artificial intelligence in the future workplace.
That article makes mentions to a study on Artificial Intelligence that Tata Communications recently published. You can download that study here. The purpose of this study is to put recent advances in AI into historical context, survey current attitudes about AI among global executives, identify potentially positive scenarios where AI could enhance human workers and increase diversity in the workforce, and summarize these in a form that can be used to enhance worker and executive morale with new thought-leadership.
We hypothesize that: AI has the potential to enhance collective intelligence and intellectual diversity, allowing human workers to do more diverse thinking, become more efficient, and undertake more creative, fulfilling labor.
Do you agree?
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Vinod Kumar
Director ONLINE TUTORS STD 1 TO 10 at HAPPY LEARNING CENTER
6 年AI will create New jobs for Innovation and Millions of Older generation people ie senior management will lose jobs and start entrepreunrership www.happylearningcenter.in
Solutions Architect @ o9 Solutions, Inc. | Driving Digital Transformation with Business Acumen
6 年IoT would help generate more data, Big Data would help create better ways to Analyse the same and AI would help automate not just repeated items but also enable us make more data backed decisions. These 3 pillars would help us free up resources via optimization. The human element is at the core of the synergy of these 3 pillars guiding the direction taken by these fields. Thus these fields would help diversify Human Thinking into innovative ways, further accelerating the rate of change. However, it'll also replace many of the skill sets as become redundant in the current world.
UC Berkeley
6 年Vinod Kumar in these few words, I would like to summarize the full 47 page report: AI has the potential to deliver the benefits of "collective diversity" at an unprecedented level, conceptualized here under the term "multiplicity" by Prof Ken Goldberg. What's interesting here is "collective diversity." All the points made in this study can be traced to this fundamental concept. Now looking at the widely accepted definition of "singularity," I would define multiplicity as: the hypothetical point in time when artificial intelligence and other technologies become so advanced that "collective diversity" of man-machine crosses a certain threshold unleashing dramatic human creativity and happiness hitherto unknown to mankind. I would like Tata to create prototypes of real examples of the "potential" and showcase those to their customers to help march towards multiplicity. How about future workforce development? Ankur Jindal Raj Baberwal Balaji Ganapathy Ronald Mikhail AngSiy
Senior Manager - Cloud and Cyber Security Services
6 年Artificial intelligence should not considered as 'Man versus Machine', but the 'Man and Machine', which can work together and will help us design, build and operate through a range of technologies that bring true innovations. The intent behind much of AI is to free us from repetitive tasks, and giving us more time as well as opportunity to grow our intellects and businesses, with more interesting, evolving actions. AI offers us that access with speed and accuracy when we need it. No doubt, we have to keep upgrading our skill set and personal identities to take the business at next level, and to compete the world.