AI in the Workplace

wm02 · Thursday at 4:04 PM

verreauxi said:
My uni students use chatgpt and other AI just to write an email to me!! WTF, it's just an email. I actually got an email, clearly written by chatgpt, that ended with "Sincerely, [insert your name]"

As I try to tell them: If you use AI to do your job, eventually you will be replaced by AI at your job.

AI is the biggest existential threat to the global workforce in history.

[edit: my colleague's son got a great job at Google with a very nice salary after they graduated from college; his team's duties were to check all the computer code before it was launched publicly by Google. One day their boss walked in and said they were all being let go and gave them 2-weeks notice. The reason given was that what their team could do in, say 3 weeks, AI could do in about 10 minutes. He is now waiting tables in San Francisco or something]

Good friend of mine is a university professor and he’s noticed a lot of AI usage in term papers. He’s increasingly relying on oral exams to grade his students. For him it’s feasible because he generally has less than 15 students per course

JLW · Thursday at 4:14 PM

My company are installing a few AI cameras in the workplace which detects if the workers have the correct PPE for whatever area they are in.
It will then send a notification to the HSE dept with the name of the employee and the PPE he isnt wearing.

Just in general though its going to stop a generation of using their brains in a generation of people that dont use their brains enough as it is.
My mate using AI to reply to the leccy company if they over charged him ffs.

It can be useful but we have to be very careful with it.

tommye · Thursday at 4:17 PM

As things stand AI could do not one thing I do in my job.
I am therefore far superior and shall continue to be so for the foreseeable.

Koff nerds

Gwladys St. Glory · Thursday at 4:19 PM

tommye said:
As things stand AI could do not one thing I do in my job.
I am therefore far superior and shall continue to be so for the foreseeable.

Koff nerds

Was gonna' say, tradesmen are one of the few that can likely rest easy.

SerenityNigh · Thursday at 4:20 PM

tommye said:
As things stand AI could do not one thing I do in my job.
I am therefore far superior and shall continue to be so for the foreseeable.

Koff nerds

I'm sure AI could cut off a finger, you'd just need to train it a little

tommye · Thursday at 4:21 PM

SerenityNigh said:
I'm sure AI could cut off a finger, you'd just need to train it a little

Its called Artificial INTELLIGENCE not Artificial Stupidity

Rita_Poon · Thursday at 4:31 PM

tommye said:
Its called Artificial INTELLIGENCE not Artificial Stupidity

Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during Moscow Open

The child was trying to make his next move at the Moscow Open when the robot grabbed him.

www.bbc.co.uk

SerenityNigh · Thursday at 4:32 PM

tommye said:
Its called Artificial INTELLIGENCE not Artificial Stupidity

what do they say about computer programming? trash in, trash out?

Seathestars · Thursday at 4:35 PM

The great man himself told us so

verreauxi · Thursday at 5:08 PM

tommye said:
As things stand AI could do not one thing I do in my job.

Tommye, get off your high-horse, AI is fully capable of surfing porn 24/7.

Cake · Thursday at 5:09 PM

SerenityNigh said:
what do they say about computer programming? trash in, trash out?

From a training induction course when I got my first "proper job" in November 1977. Not with Barclays (thankfully), it was shown widely to reassure how computers are here to help us and make our lives easier.

Edit: I think the narrator is related to Mr Cholmondley-Warner from Harry Enfield fame.

coollino · Thursday at 5:12 PM

I want it all to crash and burn, some how we've found a way to create even more bores than football stat accountants

People voluntarily using at work is mad, why would you advertise your job can be done by something else

Daz1878 · Thursday at 5:19 PM

I think AI is fantastic if you need to deliver actionable insights through in-depth data analysis.

Sincerely,
[insert name]

Armaghtoffee · Thursday at 5:25 PM

Nymzee said:
Couldn't find a suitable/similar thread, but just wondering if anyone is starting to be concerned by the heavy usage of AI in their workplace.

I work in the construction industry but more project management/controls side of things and I am astounded at how many emails and reports I am receiving that have clearly got chatGPT's sweaty fingerprints all over it.

There's a young girl in my company that's recently been nominated for Apprentice of the Year for her portfolio work and I know for a fact it has all come from chatGPT.

I don't use AI myself as I think once I start I won't stop and I'm dumb enough as it is these days just from access to Google.

Anyone else a little unnerved by how dominating it's becoming? Does your company have ways to detect usage of AI?

Hell, even MS Teams keeps telling me to use their inbuilt Copilot system just when I'm chatting to someone.

At a recent court hearing in Belfast, a Barrister cited a case reference that both the Judge and the other counsel weren’t aware of at all. Turns out the Barrister had used AI to look for relevant case law and it spewed out a made up case.