AI in the Workplace

The Medium article (linked) is a write up of this ~5 min video from @emilymbender. It is a very good summary of the current state of AI from a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Scott on "AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge?"

https://youtu.be/eK0md9tQ1KY?si=3GJx7l70SupDHmTl

In it, she clearly underlines how replacing the term “AI” with “automation” quickly opens up a whole host of useful questions: including what’s being automated, who’s automating it and why, and who’s impacted or harmed by that automation.

She's wrong about the correctness of ChatGPT:

I want to just put in a few more words about ChatGPT.

It’s important to understand that its only job is autocomplete, but it can keep autocompleting very coherently to make very long texts.

It’s being marketed as an information access system but it is not effective for that purpose.

You might as well be asking questions of a Magic 8 Ball for all the connection to reality or understanding that it has.

ChatGPT is far more accurate than a "Magic 8 Ball."