Artificial intelligence.....should we be worried? Did a robot write this for me?
Ian Kinsella
Tech Executive Recruiter | Ultra Mountain Runner | Building best in class Cyber Security, Product Management and Software Engineering teams at Morgan McKinley North America
According to various studies nearly half of Canada's jobs will be effected by automation in the next 10-20 year. Women are particular exposed according to the World Economic Forum as they hold a lot of the jobs that will be effected. In fact the study says that women will face about twice the jobs lost as men will in what has been labelled the fourth industrial revolution. So from that perspective, the answer I imagine would be yes. However like every disruptive technology, it creates opportunity. We just need to adapt and embrace it.
A.I is a thing that will become more integrated into our daily lives more frequently as the technology becomes more powerful and smarter. Most work-forces have every right to be a little on-edge about the concern of been replaced by a robot or supercomputer.
A.I is an amazing break-through. The world is heading in a really diverse direction and that is something we ought to acknowledge and attempt and to adapt to. Another interesting notion is Natural Language Generation (NLG). Would you ever query the content your reading? As in was the article you examine written by a person with their fingers on a keyboard? Is A.I capable to immediately edit the write-up with the same readability as a human but generated by some kind of system that utilises artificial-intelligence to understand text written by an individual and re-produce is? Siri is a great example of a simple A.I utilising NLG
So what is NLG and what is the purpose of it? This is a really good piece that I read and also quoted below which is taken from practical A.I for dummies: :-)
“The goal of natural language generation (NLG) systems is to figure out how to best communicate what a system knows. The trick is figuring out exactly what the system is to say and how it should say it. Unlike NLU (Natural Language Understanding), NLG systems start with a well‐controlled and unambiguous picture of the world rather than arbitrary pieces of text.
Simple NLG systems can take the ideas they are given and transform them into language. This is what Siri and her sisters use to produce limited responses. The simple mapping of ideas to sentences is adequate for these environments.”
The industry I work in is recruitment. One could believe that this is a market which is so driven by human conversation it can't be changed by AI. But, the solution is realistically it will probably. It already has been with fresh technology recruitment type businesses producing automation searching tools that are effective that companies can use to source expertise and talent, to some extent.
Would you be comfortable to be interviewed by some sort of Artificial-Intelligence platform? Would you employ somebody that has been acquired and by an automation program? In the same time can you function in a company where their selecting procedure has no human conversation? It might be tough to make these decisions without human individual interactions for sure. Time is something business people lack and appear to have less and less of in the world today. May people's time become so valuable that they use AI with zero human involvement to employ individuals or to get hired themselves? No is possibly the answer for the majority of people. My feeling is more perhaps not yet. Nevertheless, I still feel there will require to be a human touch..............for now.
It’s a fascinating period for all industries like the recruitment world as automation and AI becomes better. The less particular industries embrace A.I, the risk becomes higher that they will be left behind.
The big question is however.................did I even write this article or did a robot?
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