I have a boss who tells us weekly that everything we do should start with AI. Researching? Ask ChatGPT first. Writing an email or a document? Get ChatGPT to do it.
They send me documents they “put together” that are clearly ChatGPT generated, with no shame. They tell us that if we aren’t doing these things, our careers will be dead. And their boss is bought in to AI just as much, and so on.
I feel like I am living in a nightmare.
the company i work for which is 90% white collar office workers and 10% blue collar workers keeps trying to get us to use Copilot. as one of the blue collar workers, it has very limited use. like someone else said, it can be used basically as an advanced search engine, but even the results for say, the specs of an old piece of equipment and how to repair are suspect.
when I am very bored at work I try and quiz it or think of ways to make it more useful to my job to save time, but all the suggestions it gives basically involve pointless entry of data that is basically just busywork in my eyes with little payoff. it doesn’t even seem to be able to properly analyze emails, which I thought perhaps it would be useful to summarize a few months of emails and point out the most important points, but it cannot seem to do this for the life of me, and continually suggests ways that do not work, or are a ton of literally copying the text of all emails and putting them into a document or something like that.
i do not see ai or robotics being able to replace my job within my lifetime
That’s the most dangerous thing you can ask an AI to do. At best its going to just do a google search for you and then mangle the results. If you ask an AI for the dimensions of a specific product it will get it wrong.
Someone should make an AI that just googles shit and then shifts through the SEO slop to find original sources.