Today I was watching another Dall-E 2 video on YouTube. I usually leave these videos pretty impressed, but this time something stuck. If you are not into spending 20 minutes watching that, the summary is pretty simple: the team have all found Dall-E 2 to be pretty cool and wanted to see how the human counterpart (aka their illustrator, Tim), wound fair against it.
AI "shadow employees" seem pretty inevitable, right?
Pretty soon, it seems extremely likely that we'll have the tools to set up an AI to watch and listen to you while you work, and then support you by performing automated tasks (e.g., queries/analysis/research/etc. based on the emails you're getting, your to-do list, your calendar, etc.) To start they would just be supervised "suggestion bots" without authority to send emails or write files unless approved, but they'll still be able to automate a ton of work, and improve the output of their human counterpart.
On one hand, this will be AWESOME! If I could hand over half my workload to an AI, that would be amazing, especially if it handles the annoying stuff that disrupts your day like people sending you emails looking for routine information.
As long as you are in personal control of the AI, it sounds great, right? But what if your employer forces you to be constantly recorded by an AI that is learning your job? Obviously there's a privacy concern, as well as the fear of losing your job as soon as the AI approaches being as good at the job as you.
But, there could also be benefits to having a company with super-productive AIs - you would have access to so much more analytical power than if you rely on humans. And you know Hank in IT who always takes 5 days to respond to an email? Now his shadow AI can respond immediately and give you the info you need.
So personally, if I were in control of it I would love to have an AI automating my job. Even if my employer controlled it, I think I would still be OK with it, just because I feel secure in my ability to contribute, and if my job were able to be fully supplanted, that seems like we would already be living in a post-scarcity utopia.
Even if programs like Dalle-2 generate variable quality output, that could turn into a scenario where the audience becomes the co-creator. It would be easy to create feedback mechanisms from audience impressions back to the creative engine, so there wouldn't need to be a single "creative human" in the loop making decisions. This feedback loop could generate frighteningly compelling content that appeals to the lowest common denominator of human engagement (not that different to the dynamic created social media feedback mechanisms).
AI "shadow employees" seem pretty inevitable, right?
Pretty soon, it seems extremely likely that we'll have the tools to set up an AI to watch and listen to you while you work, and then support you by performing automated tasks (e.g., queries/analysis/research/etc. based on the emails you're getting, your to-do list, your calendar, etc.) To start they would just be supervised "suggestion bots" without authority to send emails or write files unless approved, but they'll still be able to automate a ton of work, and improve the output of their human counterpart.
On one hand, this will be AWESOME! If I could hand over half my workload to an AI, that would be amazing, especially if it handles the annoying stuff that disrupts your day like people sending you emails looking for routine information.
As long as you are in personal control of the AI, it sounds great, right? But what if your employer forces you to be constantly recorded by an AI that is learning your job? Obviously there's a privacy concern, as well as the fear of losing your job as soon as the AI approaches being as good at the job as you.
But, there could also be benefits to having a company with super-productive AIs - you would have access to so much more analytical power than if you rely on humans. And you know Hank in IT who always takes 5 days to respond to an email? Now his shadow AI can respond immediately and give you the info you need.
So personally, if I were in control of it I would love to have an AI automating my job. Even if my employer controlled it, I think I would still be OK with it, just because I feel secure in my ability to contribute, and if my job were able to be fully supplanted, that seems like we would already be living in a post-scarcity utopia.
Even if programs like Dalle-2 generate variable quality output, that could turn into a scenario where the audience becomes the co-creator. It would be easy to create feedback mechanisms from audience impressions back to the creative engine, so there wouldn't need to be a single "creative human" in the loop making decisions. This feedback loop could generate frighteningly compelling content that appeals to the lowest common denominator of human engagement (not that different to the dynamic created social media feedback mechanisms).