The modern office - where we read out what copilot tells us to think

[LorenzoCalzone]

I attended a meeting today with senior people in my company. People were clearly just reading out their AI drafted thought pieces. I thought "Is this the future of office work now? Listening to someone's copilot results, maybe countering it with another AI generated point of view". These perfectly scripted perspectives are all over linkedin too.

Of course I use it too. The toothpaste is out of the tube!

I wonder if mathematicians felt like this when the pocket calculator came along. Its cheating!

On the one hand, you're right. It's not the kind of question that AI is good at answering.

On the other, isn't it barking mad that you can't expect an AI to tell you "that's not the kind of question I can answer"? Instead the damn thing will just make shit up rather than admit it's can't do what you're asking?

so in many ways the same as a person,

As I may have mentioned, the AI used by my company (Pharma oncology) is reducing research and time to market by up to 80%.
That is massive. Saving money obviously, but getting chemotherapy and immunotherapy to patients faster.

My company is panicking and trying to roll it out everywhere, too. It seems to be me to be the ultimate case of the emperor's new clothes - I'm yet to see any use case which is providing genuine benefit but everyone's rushing to use it in so they're not 'left behind'. I don't use it - I've been a 'high performer' in my role for more than 10 years by using my own brain and experience - and if they want to force the issue they'll be losing that expertise as I'd resign before I contributed to the destruction of the planet, theft of intellectual property and wilful erosion of my cognitive abilities.

The worst part is that the company trades on being 'an industry leader in sustainability.' Yet a newly promoted leader recently had to summarise himself in three words for a company presentation and asked Copilot to do it. If we carry on this way we're absolutely fucking doomed.

My brain struggle to read AI written emails. My boss wrote my yearly appraisal using AI and I still have not read it 6 months on. It’s this flowery language which makes me feel as if I am wasting time reading it.

As I may have mentioned, the AI used by my company (Pharma oncology) is reducing research and time to market by up to 80%.
That is massive. Saving money obviously, but getting chemotherapy and immunotherapy to patients faster.

But I suppose your company is using a specialist AI which you provide with specific data and you then have the expertise to evaluate the results.

You don't get it to trawl the internet and come up with any old shite which you then accept as accurate. Or which you have to spend more time rewriting and correcting than it would have taken to do the work yourself in the first place.

but its all still possible because of ai, just that they have a better version

Worrying if you think the two examples are in any way similar.

from a tech point i dont see how tech wise at least computer coding is still computer coding just the complexity is what is different ?