Lmao truee, watched it all and I am still none the wiser about AI, all the interviewees were making such painfully generic comments on AI, asking rhetorical useless questions and using the most amount of buzzwords possible
i listened to 6 minutes of this, and this is the most airheaded garbage ive ever listend to. its literal horse manuer. seriously, nothing of substance was said. no original thoughts. an ai would of done a much better job spectacular waste of my time with a 0/10 video
They should focus on loyalty and work on agent software systems, not track their employees to death so they want to quit and become an entrepreneur. They are forgetting the job is there for the lazy, the focused entrepreneur 10x programmers cost too much and don't want to dedicate their finite time to rubbish systems.
00:02 Currently, two-thirds of desk workers are not using AI technology 01:27 Business Leaders' Perspectives on AI 02:38 Disconnect Between Executives and Workers 03:31 Understanding Worker Emotions Towards AI 05:36 Trust Issues with AI in the Workplace Only 7% of workers worldwide fully trust AI technology 06:17 Importance of Human Connection in AI Adoption even advanced systems won't succeed if people are unwilling to use them. 06:31 Importance of Guidelines for AI Usage 07:11 43% of desk workers reported receiving no guidance on using AI tools at work 09:39 Challenges of Using AI in Business 11:04 Enhancing Performance Reviews with AI 12:07 Simplifying Work Processes with AI 14:40 Balancing Speed and Caution in AI Adoption 16:22 Tailoring AI Solutions to Organizational Needs 16:53 There is a valid need for skepticism regarding AI's impact, suggesting that careful consideration is necessary before fully embracing the technology. Summary by GPT Breeze
AI does water flowers, but not sure they're in pots... And, I suppose through a certain perspective, that Aqua-something that cleans public or workplace toilets is a form of AI because it doesn't just work on sensors as a function.
Algorithms and to a much lesser extent ai are used for large scale greenhouse irrigation, it's also being used in drone tech and farming equipment. There are robots and automatically cleaning toilets which use algorithms to clean toilets, using ai is just a waste for such a system task.
So the poor get to work for minimum wage, while the rich either owns shares in AI companies or uses AI to micro-manage their workers, sure sounds like a great future...
Office workers will go the way of laborers during industrialization. Executives are licking their chops at the prospect of cutting down their workforce
The executives are just as replaceable, AI will soon be capable of making far better and faster decisions. Why pay hundreds of thousands or even millions a year for someone inferior to an AI.
Makes me think of all the other bubble technologies FT promoted, and then flipped on after the bubble burst. Really good journalism here, albeit yellow journalism.
I am a fan of FT, but I found this video terrible. What is said about AI is vague and obvious. Once the video is over, no new information or interesting reflections about AI in the workplace are gained. It would be more engaging if you conducted interviews with philosophers or sociologists about AI, while keeping the focus on the economy. This could provide us with a different and deeper perspective.
One other reason for not using AI that they didn't discuss is how much energy and water it consumes (for cooling data centers). This is why I think there will always be limits to how much AI we can and should use. We also don't have the chip capacity to keep up with current demand, much less if everyone uses AI. While I doubt this is a reason most people aren't using AI, I do think it is a good thing that most aren't. It should be reserved for science and high end uses where it can do the most good, not trivial things like memos.
A lot of money is being thrown at finding sustainable solutions to building and operating data centers. Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, HP, Lenovo are all putting in millions into research and development. Using water and relying on the current grid is simply not feasible, and they know that. I think we’re going to innovate our way out of this issue. Look at the COOLERCHIPS program. Governments are pushing this too.
The tech is really useful, the few will be supercharged thanks to it, most will under employ is and the rest will be bamboozled or disenfranchised, well at least that's what I was thinking when i did my masters
The real concern should be only the energy used by AI. AI it is expensive and we can't afford it as humans, the world is already suffering for the lack of energy and AI it is so hungry of energy. The Big Tech companies have to put down lots of money on Nuclear power plants as soon as they can.
Absolutely agree! 🌍 The energy consumption of AI is a pressing issue that needs immediate attention. With our current energy crisis, balancing technological advancement with sustainable initiatives is essential. Investing in nuclear power could be a way forward, but it’s crucial to explore all green energy avenues for a more sustainable future. 🌿 Let's hope Big Tech steps up to the plate. ⚡
@@qlmbusinessnews I forgot to mention the most important thing, energy and as consequence AI needs plenty of water. I agree all the green resources are necessary but the first one must be nuclear because can produce energy h24.
The enormous energy appetite of AI might become its biggest limiting factor - and our/societies best chance to slow down and reevaluate all the „benefits“ that AI pretends to bring about. I hope that this AI-madness is constraint by energy supply eventually.
@@bitandbob1167 As much as NO human being can change the amount of sunlight that is hitting the earth (we can only tinker with the transformation of it) NO AI can solve (!) its energy issue. It can of course find ways to optimize its energy-hunger or "grab more of the energy pie" but it cannot solve the astronomical energy needs itself. This is in essence a logical paradoxon. My hope is, that the AI-pace suffocates under its own energy demands. But that is just my humble hope....
I find it hillarious to think that HR types use AI to create long corpo speak out of short corpo speak. As a programmer I find AI useful to safe time on questions I otherwise would have solved googling. I rarely use it to create production code. The problem with ai-generated code is that it is very difficult to find the mistakes because it looks good while still being wrong in subtle ways.
Yeah me too, before I was googling or going to SO to find the answer but now with Phind for example is much faster, also Phind gives you links of articles where it searches as well. It’s just googling on steroids
Those that have been delegating tasks" have a dirty little secret. Failure rates in excess of 60% across every industry for decades. Failures are routinely blamed on the delegated. Funny they didn't include in their "typing" the 20% "disenfranchised" that are hostile to technology and act out destructively.
I found it fascinating to learn we're in the fourth industrial revolution when listening to a talk on the subject. I suppose I had the notion it was mills and mass movement to cities far too entrenched as an idea in my head.
Very useful, thank you. If you are considering a follow up video, you might consider looking into the risk of losing organizational "tribal knowledge" to an AI service that has an uncertain future. Like all SAS products, once a company grows then founders sell and a hedge fund takes over and strips the human overhead and changes terms of service. The legal terms of service show how at risk a company is when dealing with a monolithic company that decides to "evolve". Rarely do profit minded companies do what is best for society, or all of their customers... they do what gets the humans the most short term payouts.
Sorry FT, I m a subscriber to get quality information, not just corporate hype. Really disappointed with the lack of critical questions. There are sufficient outsiders around (outsiders meaning people not in HR or management) to talk about the current la k of integration of AI into systems, the effect on working (do I eagerly adopt something that will be used against me?), the effects on society. Just leaving it to an HR company is utterly ridiculous
I can see why the FT refused to only hint at this (their advertising base is likely these same corps)...soon workers who refuse to adopt AI into their work will be terminated. It will become your job to use it...since using it is actually you training it to do your work. Eventually that office of 50 people will have only three--the three tasked with overseeing all the accounts, thus saving the organization hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars. We will put a happy face ("Your job will get a lot easier!!") on this until the layoffs quietly reduce head counts...this is what excites CEOs the most.
Most CEO’s are older and out of touch. They’re so behind the times they’re trying to push for “return to the office for better collaboration”. Smart CEO’s who can see the future would ditch the office costs now and invest that money into adopting AI integration. Remote employers can employ from across the world rather than being limited to within a radius of their offices.
IMO the real issue is actually with political economy: we have ALL invested in this new productivlty technology, by funding basic research at universities and government labs, as well as providing all the data; we should all share (to some extent) to the benefits of productivity! Instead it seems that productivity tooling is used to lay off people (those same people that have invested in the development) so that the profits can be privatized, instead of shared. For example, who developed the basics of the Internet? It was the US government DARPA, it was NOT any corporiation (IBM, Microsoft, etc.). It appears to be the same for AI and LLM. Economists for 100s of years have predicted we should be working shorter work weeks, but instead we are working harder than ever, and being laid off. p.s. read and listen to Mariana Mazzucato about how government creates wealth
I like how AI can help in your simple task but i just don’t like that somehow in the future it will replace a lot of employees when the technology is perfected. Even me as a person who work in a software dev is at risk of losing my job
Absolutely agree! 🌍 AI is revolutionizing the workplace at lightning speed. It's vital we adapt and embrace these changes. Let's stay informed and proactive to reap its full benefits! 🤖✨
This video highlights the incredible speed at which AI is reshaping our world. The examples of automation and creative AI tools truly showcase both the opportunities and challenges ahead. It’s fascinating to see how industries are evolving to adapt, but it also raises critical questions: How do we ensure equitable access to these advancements? And how do we prepare for the ethical and societal implications? Thought-provoking content like this is essential for sparking these conversations. Great job, Financial Times!
AI as in chatgpt et all are essentially Office tools. It's AI in the same sense that cars are motor tech. That is this is just a new way to be more efficient and perhaps more productive in some cases. Think Clippy, not Terminator.
AI is replacing humans and it will be doing 90% of all jobs by 2030. In 2023 and 2024, over a third of employers have said they've already replaced humans with AI.
Digital era could not stand for long time it has many consequences like losing jobs from vulnerable communities who do not get scope to learn and computing to other. It gets benefit first world countries and spreads environmental issues of the poorer nations.
This video completely ignored the concern of most people. AI in "cost-cutting" measures is the issue. The job displacement of millions of people in the economy, while tech companies try to improve AI where it becomes a self-improving technology with the general intelligence of human beings is the main issue. Why adopt it now, if it will replace me later? What is inspiring OpenAI to do tests for UBI? It's because they anticipate massive job displacement, and in some sense, permanent industrial cuts. Distrust of top-level leadership to self-preserve over the needs of their workforce is the secondary issue. The general public doesn't trust top-level corporate leadership - they will always choose to cut others over themselves. And with our pursuit of a self-improving/self-replicating artificial general intelligence, new jobs that are created while old ones are destroyed is not a viable option as the self-improving/self-replicating artificial general intelligence could simply fill those needs theoretically as well.
Equal wealth redistribution, not a puny UBI. We were all the input for this stuff, we should own it! If it ever comes to widespread use that it. Currently it’s just garbage at even basic tasks.
Hoping this AI transformation leads to changes in the physical space vs just digital efficiency (take away the screens / monitors etc whats the difference between us and 1970)??
Something that I have learnt is that If you really enjoy your job - you enjoy doing research yourself and NLPs take out that joy of it. Haha and someone that delegates is because does not know how to do things anymore
What a load of shoe makers 👞👞 - searching for a pattern to produce a result 🧩 Ai will not fix my worn out shoes or prevent my osteoarthritis in my fingers as I complete my jigsaw.
Every AI/ML process has an inherent error, an error function that you are looking to minimize but nontheless an error. Try explaining that an ML process you developed has a 15-20% error rate, which is a fairly decent starting point. The argument revolves around the 15-20% potential for mistakes instead of streamlining 80% of a given job. Also, people fail to acknoledge that their intuition driving 90% of their decisions have a 50% rate of error due to bias (and this is being too leaning). People choose to follow the current narrative and loose on a strong opportunity to develop skills. My take, half the people will struggle throughout their careers because of these limitations regardless of efforts.
Ai is still in the stage of a hyped crap. While automation is fast paced, it's automation that is taking over jobs rather this Ai hype. I tried simple tasks with ai, 5/10 times random information which can't be used as real output. Be coding, videos, chatbot none as per the level of standard human output. The responses are stolen from peoples conversation or from some website.
AI should be a cheaper assistant to who uses it, something to bounce ideas off of and help fact check. If AI is used for everything, then there is no use for a human workforce and creativity will be exercised by a few. Using it for emails and text messages, id consider as plagiarism. My old friend send me text that was generated by AI and i lose that connection from humans. AI is great to give you that little push though, wanting to do something and it will encourage you that you should and how to go about it, such as what educational classes to take an idea you have into a more solid form.
In a few years we’ll have AI systems that can make far better decisions than the executives and CEO’s. Why pay millions a year for someone thats inferior to an AI that costs less than a minimum wage employee in computing power. CEO’s should also be very worried about new competition arriving with an AI agent workforce that could crush them as not paying for expensive London staff and offices. Big companies could be slow to change and then panic and collapse. Big companies with lots of staff, offices and debt are going to be very exposed. The software and tech sector has a huge amount to be concerned about, can see a lot of companies currently valued in the billions implode when faced with huge amounts of competition at a fraction of the cost.
I think one of the most worrying things about the current and future situation at work is everyone’s inability to understand neurodiversity. I’ve recently been forced out of my corporate job because they didn’t want to change the way they coach, nor change the way they think about delegating work… Unfortunately this happen to another person with ADHD at Interpath, before my diagnosis. I never saw him again. Should’ve known better it would happen to me once the diagnosis was clear. Should’ve kept my mouth shut but how f***ed is that???
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This is not very interesting. All the interviews are jumbled word salad. “ transparency err accountability err go slow to go fast, err gobble gobble gobble”
I disagree with that AI persona tool, because there is no *AI Realist* option. AI is amazing, right up until you attempt to deliver real-world value, at which point hallucination, naive errors, misalignment, lack of business fit, and unintended consequences in human systems, all combine to make effective implementation far more difficult than expected. Many of these are solvable issues, but it's difficult and context dependent. Many of these issues are irreconcilable, and so some of these dreams of both executives and *AI Maximalists* are destined for the dustbin. Even low hanging fruit such as AI meeting transcription is difficult to get right, especially when faced with jargon, work product context, stakeholders, contributor identification, accents and mannerisms. Accurate AI meeting transcription is necessary to provide the AI with enough context-specific data to work with. Without context-specific data, frequent AI misalignment and naive errors are inevitable. Add to this data security and privacy issues, and user acceptance issues, and legal exposure issues, and the set of *realistically* viable AI initiatives are further constricted. This one quote is the most important in the entire video: "One of the biggest downsides is that this is still quite a complicated technology, and I think people that have used AI know that it can also be a little bit unreliable. And when you have a complicated technology that's unreliable, you have got to be prepared for things to go a bit askew and awry." - Azeem Azhar, CEO & Founder of Exponential View
The only thing I’m seeing it transform is my colleagues. Into stupider people who are losing basic skills that they’re outsourcing to a language model that doesn’t know what is true or false.
The downside no one speaks about is there will be less roles for juniors vs seniors...and then secondly, the rich will get richer and the poor poorer. He explained the seniors thing..senior people have been delegating work to juniors...now they will delegate it to AIs...eventually the AI will also become good at delegating tasks and will comfortably replace even senior people...but thats much later. The second less obvious thing is that the rich will become richer and the poor poorer. There is a lie being peddled by people like elon musk about AI leading to the rise of universal basic income. AI that works on your behalf but you get the salary...that stuff will never happen. AI is going to replace the need the rich to need the poor. Before, rich people still needed lower class people to do menial tasks...they needed a driver, a maid, a gardener etc...now all those roles will be replaced by robots and suddenly the rich wont need to pay poor people. The rich will get richer and the poor poorer because they will lose the few jobs they have. Eventually there will be big protests against AI and machines/robots...AI will be banned in certain spheres...new companies will push the fact that they hire real humans as an advantage...a feature of their products.
We’ll have to move to reducing the working week from 5 days down to say between 2-3 days per week. This is likely to be the new norm in 5-10 years time
„….this technology (AI) is developing so quickly“…. and that is exactly one of the issues with AI. Most Humans hardly understand the technology behind it, let alone the social, cognitive, and economic consequences that AI triggers. The current pace of AI development is too fast for humans and society to understand and adopt in a beneficial way.
Obviously they are talking about GenAI in most of this video - FT should be more clear about it. The Slack lady is clearly lacking experience- presenting the work she was talking about as some amazing breakthrough “why humans use or not use AI” - big smile attached of course. Just laughable. A real nothing burger
@@issiewizziethis is different. writing was always a therapeutic exercise for me, but AI took that away for me. Now I am just asked to use chatgpt to produce content, rendering me entirely useless. Part of writing is thinking and getting answers in that way. But I know we have to accept this new reality.
AI will make most current work obsolete within the next 10-20 years. There is absolutely NO reason we should all “work for living” with the AI and Robotics tech arriving on the scene and set to replace us all shortly…
20 minutes of corporate noise, thanks FT
An AI to reduce corporate noise would be helpful... wait a minute,...it may do the opposite 😂
Lmao truee, watched it all and I am still none the wiser about AI, all the interviewees were making such painfully generic comments on AI, asking rhetorical useless questions and using the most amount of buzzwords possible
i listened to 6 minutes of this, and this is the most airheaded garbage ive ever listend to. its literal horse manuer. seriously, nothing of substance was said. no original thoughts. an ai would of done a much better job
spectacular waste of my time with a 0/10 video
@@Will-kp1iv yep
Really, completely irrelevant nonsense
Your job gets easier so you will be given more work. The level of monitoring of performance will be increased.
They should focus on loyalty and work on agent software systems, not track their employees to death so they want to quit and become an entrepreneur. They are forgetting the job is there for the lazy, the focused entrepreneur 10x programmers cost too much and don't want to dedicate their finite time to rubbish systems.
5 Stars' new commercial's opening scene shows that perfectly indeed!
Your job gets easier because you are training it to take your job. Ai apprenticeship.
Agree with you!
Hit all the right buzzwords ✅
Answered questions with 10 more questions ✅
17 minutes of vague speculation ✅
@@stonersgym8120 yep
Correct 💯😂
00:02 Currently, two-thirds of desk workers are not using AI technology
01:27 Business Leaders' Perspectives on AI
02:38 Disconnect Between Executives and Workers
03:31 Understanding Worker Emotions Towards AI
05:36 Trust Issues with AI in the Workplace Only 7% of workers worldwide fully trust AI technology
06:17 Importance of Human Connection in AI Adoption even advanced systems won't succeed if people are unwilling to use them.
06:31 Importance of Guidelines for AI Usage
07:11 43% of desk workers reported receiving no guidance on using AI tools at work
09:39 Challenges of Using AI in Business
11:04 Enhancing Performance Reviews with AI
12:07 Simplifying Work Processes with AI
14:40 Balancing Speed and Caution in AI Adoption
16:22 Tailoring AI Solutions to Organizational Needs
16:53 There is a valid need for skepticism regarding AI's impact, suggesting that careful consideration is necessary before fully embracing the technology.
Summary by GPT Breeze
Of course a big company at 3:16 has created a "personality type" around AI, despite such concepts being being utter nonsense.
Haven't noticed AI cleaning the toilets or watering the pot plants yet.
AI does water flowers, but not sure they're in pots... And, I suppose through a certain perspective, that Aqua-something that cleans public or workplace toilets is a form of AI because it doesn't just work on sensors as a function.
Algorithms and to a much lesser extent ai are used for large scale greenhouse irrigation, it's also being used in drone tech and farming equipment.
There are robots and automatically cleaning toilets which use algorithms to clean toilets, using ai is just a waste for such a system task.
So the poor get to work for minimum wage, while the rich either owns shares in AI companies or uses AI to micro-manage their workers, sure sounds like a great future...
@@Loppy2345 you can buy shares, too. 👍
@@combatwombat2134until inflation and one bad break forces you to sell.
Office workers will go the way of laborers during industrialization. Executives are licking their chops at the prospect of cutting down their workforce
The executives are just as replaceable, AI will soon be capable of making far better and faster decisions. Why pay hundreds of thousands or even millions a year for someone inferior to an AI.
Now you can ask AI if your CEOs decision was correct
Hahah I got made redundant a few weeks ago. AI said that wasn’t the right business move. I knew it anyway but nice to have the outside understanding.
Makes me think of all the other bubble technologies FT promoted, and then flipped on after the bubble burst. Really good journalism here, albeit yellow journalism.
I am a fan of FT, but I found this video terrible. What is said about AI is vague and obvious. Once the video is over, no new information or interesting reflections about AI in the workplace are gained. It would be more engaging if you conducted interviews with philosophers or sociologists about AI, while keeping the focus on the economy. This could provide us with a different and deeper perspective.
The more you use it the less you need to do, the more you are training it to take your job.
In the future all call centers will have AI. Artificial Indians.
One other reason for not using AI that they didn't discuss is how much energy and water it consumes (for cooling data centers). This is why I think there will always be limits to how much AI we can and should use. We also don't have the chip capacity to keep up with current demand, much less if everyone uses AI. While I doubt this is a reason most people aren't using AI, I do think it is a good thing that most aren't. It should be reserved for science and high end uses where it can do the most good, not trivial things like memos.
A lot of money is being thrown at finding sustainable solutions to building and operating data centers. Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, HP, Lenovo are all putting in millions into research and development. Using water and relying on the current grid is simply not feasible, and they know that. I think we’re going to innovate our way out of this issue. Look at the COOLERCHIPS program. Governments are pushing this too.
Great answer 👏🏻
Feels like it may remove the middle management entirely from the corporate world!
Good. Overpaid people in their 50s in a useless role. WFH proves we need no middle managers.
The tech is really useful, the few will be supercharged thanks to it, most will under employ is and the rest will be bamboozled or disenfranchised, well at least that's what I was thinking when i did my masters
The real concern should be only the energy used by AI. AI it is expensive and we can't afford it as humans, the world is already suffering for the lack of energy and AI it is so hungry of energy. The Big Tech companies have to put down lots of money on Nuclear power plants as soon as they can.
Absolutely agree! 🌍 The energy consumption of AI is a pressing issue that needs immediate attention. With our current energy crisis, balancing technological advancement with sustainable initiatives is essential. Investing in nuclear power could be a way forward, but it’s crucial to explore all green energy avenues for a more sustainable future. 🌿 Let's hope Big Tech steps up to the plate. ⚡
@@qlmbusinessnews I forgot to mention the most important thing, energy and as consequence AI needs plenty of water. I agree all the green resources are necessary but the first one must be nuclear because can produce energy h24.
The enormous energy appetite of AI might become its biggest limiting factor - and our/societies best chance to slow down and reevaluate all the „benefits“ that AI pretends to bring about. I hope that this AI-madness is constraint by energy supply eventually.
But won’t AI itself be able to crack the energy efficiency issue of chips, to make then less energy hungry?
@@bitandbob1167 As much as NO human being can change the amount of sunlight that is hitting the earth (we can only tinker with the transformation of it) NO AI can solve (!) its energy issue. It can of course find ways to optimize its energy-hunger or "grab more of the energy pie" but it cannot solve the astronomical energy needs itself. This is in essence a logical paradoxon. My hope is, that the AI-pace suffocates under its own energy demands. But that is just my humble hope....
Excellent, thanks for posting, that's really interesting and useful.
I find it hillarious to think that HR types use AI to create long corpo speak out of short corpo speak. As a programmer I find AI useful to safe time on questions I otherwise would have solved googling. I rarely use it to create production code. The problem with ai-generated code is that it is very difficult to find the mistakes because it looks good while still being wrong in subtle ways.
Yeah me too, before I was googling or going to SO to find the answer but now with Phind for example is much faster, also Phind gives you links of articles where it searches as well. It’s just googling on steroids
Once AI stops hallucinating and starts providing reliable results in an energy efficient way, it may become a useful tool.
Those that have been delegating tasks" have a dirty little secret. Failure rates in excess of 60% across every industry for decades. Failures are routinely blamed on the delegated. Funny they didn't include in their "typing" the 20% "disenfranchised" that are hostile to technology and act out destructively.
I found it fascinating to learn we're in the fourth industrial revolution when listening to a talk on the subject.
I suppose I had the notion it was mills and mass movement to cities far too entrenched as an idea in my head.
some Ai is good for humanity but some Ai might make some group of peoples much more powerfull than anyone else
3:29 "Why are the humans not using it?" - A human 👀
Humanities job will change. For the better why most of us will become overseer guiding AI robots on a specific work or task
Very useful, thank you. If you are considering a follow up video, you might consider looking into the risk of losing organizational "tribal knowledge" to an AI service that has an uncertain future. Like all SAS products, once a company grows then founders sell and a hedge fund takes over and strips the human overhead and changes terms of service. The legal terms of service show how at risk a company is when dealing with a monolithic company that decides to "evolve". Rarely do profit minded companies do what is best for society, or all of their customers... they do what gets the humans the most short term payouts.
Sorry FT, I m a subscriber to get quality information, not just corporate hype. Really disappointed with the lack of critical questions. There are sufficient outsiders around (outsiders meaning people not in HR or management) to talk about the current la k of integration of AI into systems, the effect on working (do I eagerly adopt something that will be used against me?), the effects on society. Just leaving it to an HR company is utterly ridiculous
We are not ready for AI, but the good news is that AI isn't ready either... Current models require a lot of new theoretical advancement
I can see why the FT refused to only hint at this (their advertising base is likely these same corps)...soon workers who refuse to adopt AI into their work will be terminated. It will become your job to use it...since using it is actually you training it to do your work. Eventually that office of 50 people will have only three--the three tasked with overseeing all the accounts, thus saving the organization hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars. We will put a happy face ("Your job will get a lot easier!!") on this until the layoffs quietly reduce head counts...this is what excites CEOs the most.
Most CEO’s are older and out of touch. They’re so behind the times they’re trying to push for “return to the office for better collaboration”. Smart CEO’s who can see the future would ditch the office costs now and invest that money into adopting AI integration. Remote employers can employ from across the world rather than being limited to within a radius of their offices.
Smaller companies will take full advantage.
AI isn’t the future; it’s the now we live in 🔥
IMO the real issue is actually with political economy: we have ALL invested in this new productivlty technology, by funding basic research at universities and government labs, as well as providing all the data; we should all share (to some extent) to the benefits of productivity! Instead it seems that productivity tooling is used to lay off people (those same people that have invested in the development) so that the profits can be privatized, instead of shared. For example, who developed the basics of the Internet? It was the US government DARPA, it was NOT any corporiation (IBM, Microsoft, etc.). It appears to be the same for AI and LLM. Economists for 100s of years have predicted we should be working shorter work weeks, but instead we are working harder than ever, and being laid off.
p.s. read and listen to Mariana Mazzucato about how government creates wealth
what is a step above maximalist? like not being able to go without it anymore?
I like how AI can help in your simple task but i just don’t like that somehow in the future it will replace a lot of employees when the technology is perfected. Even me as a person who work in a software dev is at risk of losing my job
Absolutely agree! 🌍 AI is revolutionizing the workplace at lightning speed. It's vital we adapt and embrace these changes. Let's stay informed and proactive to reap its full benefits! 🤖✨
Not ready, and the UK does not have the infrastructure in terms of cheap energy and data centres.
This video highlights the incredible speed at which AI is reshaping our world. The examples of automation and creative AI tools truly showcase both the opportunities and challenges ahead. It’s fascinating to see how industries are evolving to adapt, but it also raises critical questions: How do we ensure equitable access to these advancements? And how do we prepare for the ethical and societal implications? Thought-provoking content like this is essential for sparking these conversations. Great job, Financial Times!
So funny how media accounts still tout how amazing AI is while real people accounts demonstrate how embarrassingly stupid it is
Apparently some real people have no idea how to use it.
Which weird because it's pretty damn easy to use.
Cover is good 💯
If AI is a tool, why does it feel like we're the ones being reshaped? Are we adapting to tech, or is it the other way around?
4:52 When the survey questions are the same as the outcome definitions, you know you’re dealing with corporate garbage nonsense scams.
17 minutes of clueless women yapping
What a waste of time
AI as in chatgpt et all are essentially Office tools. It's AI in the same sense that cars are motor tech. That is this is just a new way to be more efficient and perhaps more productive in some cases. Think Clippy, not Terminator.
I’m a Maximalist also! 😎🤖
AI is replacing humans and it will be doing 90% of all jobs by 2030. In 2023 and 2024, over a third of employers have said they've already replaced humans with AI.
What about Gdpr? Don't people worry about uploading customer data? Where does it go?
i'm trying to pull AI onto the companyfloor I work at but I face a lot of resistance
Digital era could not stand for long time it has many consequences like losing jobs from vulnerable communities who do not get scope to learn and computing to other. It gets benefit first world countries and spreads environmental issues of the poorer nations.
Useless info! So much more could have been said in this time. SMH
This video completely ignored the concern of most people. AI in "cost-cutting" measures is the issue. The job displacement of millions of people in the economy, while tech companies try to improve AI where it becomes a self-improving technology with the general intelligence of human beings is the main issue. Why adopt it now, if it will replace me later? What is inspiring OpenAI to do tests for UBI? It's because they anticipate massive job displacement, and in some sense, permanent industrial cuts. Distrust of top-level leadership to self-preserve over the needs of their workforce is the secondary issue. The general public doesn't trust top-level corporate leadership - they will always choose to cut others over themselves. And with our pursuit of a self-improving/self-replicating artificial general intelligence, new jobs that are created while old ones are destroyed is not a viable option as the self-improving/self-replicating artificial general intelligence could simply fill those needs theoretically as well.
Equal wealth redistribution, not a puny UBI. We were all the input for this stuff, we should own it! If it ever comes to widespread use that it. Currently it’s just garbage at even basic tasks.
Hoping this AI transformation leads to changes in the physical space vs just digital efficiency (take away the screens / monitors etc whats the difference between us and 1970)??
Wider societie is not ready for AI, we need to implement it but slowly
Great video ❤
Something that I have learnt is that If you really enjoy your job - you enjoy doing research yourself and NLPs take out that joy of it.
Haha and someone that delegates is because does not know how to do things anymore
Noted 😊
Most companies have no idea where to begin and aren’t hiring people with an Ai-first mentality.
What a load of shoe makers 👞👞 - searching for a pattern to produce a result 🧩
Ai will not fix my worn out shoes or prevent my osteoarthritis in my fingers as I complete my jigsaw.
Every AI/ML process has an inherent error, an error function that you are looking to minimize but nontheless an error. Try explaining that an ML process you developed has a 15-20% error rate, which is a fairly decent starting point. The argument revolves around the 15-20% potential for mistakes instead of streamlining 80% of a given job. Also, people fail to acknoledge that their intuition driving 90% of their decisions have a 50% rate of error due to bias (and this is being too leaning). People choose to follow the current narrative and loose on a strong opportunity to develop skills. My take, half the people will struggle throughout their careers because of these limitations regardless of efforts.
The automatic hoover is more intelligent than some of my co-workers
Ai is still in the stage of a hyped crap. While automation is fast paced, it's automation that is taking over jobs rather this Ai hype. I tried simple tasks with ai, 5/10 times random information which can't be used as real output. Be coding, videos, chatbot none as per the level of standard human output. The responses are stolen from peoples conversation or from some website.
The lattice office is hilarious. Where is everybody? Did the AI dispose of them?
Offices are no longer required, best to get rid of them.
Do you know what you talking about ?
Did you forget to color grade the footage?
AI should be a cheaper assistant to who uses it, something to bounce ideas off of and help fact check. If AI is used for everything, then there is no use for a human workforce and creativity will be exercised by a few. Using it for emails and text messages, id consider as plagiarism. My old friend send me text that was generated by AI and i lose that connection from humans. AI is great to give you that little push though, wanting to do something and it will encourage you that you should and how to go about it, such as what educational classes to take an idea you have into a more solid form.
In a few years we’ll have AI systems that can make far better decisions than the executives and CEO’s. Why pay millions a year for someone thats inferior to an AI that costs less than a minimum wage employee in computing power.
CEO’s should also be very worried about new competition arriving with an AI agent workforce that could crush them as not paying for expensive London staff and offices. Big companies could be slow to change and then panic and collapse. Big companies with lots of staff, offices and debt are going to be very exposed. The software and tech sector has a huge amount to be concerned about, can see a lot of companies currently valued in the billions implode when faced with huge amounts of competition at a fraction of the cost.
I think one of the most worrying things about the current and future situation at work is everyone’s inability to understand neurodiversity.
I’ve recently been forced out of my corporate job because they didn’t want to change the way they coach, nor change the way they think about delegating work… Unfortunately this happen to another person with ADHD at Interpath, before my diagnosis. I never saw him again. Should’ve known better it would happen to me once the diagnosis was clear. Should’ve kept my mouth shut but how f***ed is that???
The growing demand for AI, ChatGPT, and robotics inspired me to dive into coding, as it’s the foundation for mastering these fields. I enrolled in Moonpreneur’s coding course, which offers an engaging, hands-on approach for kids to learn tech skills. Through creative projects, it fosters problem-solving, logical thinking, and confidence in a fun, supportive environment.
I guess you could start by having AI help you uploading a video to YT that reaches at least 1080p.
Yang kita harapkan AI nya cerdas pengguna AI nya pun juga cerdas
you use AI a couple of times a week and you are a maximalist? I think the bar is too low. 4:50
Chat GPT says "FT is done this is garbage"
It's simple. We either collaborate with artificial intelligence or get taken over by it.😂
This is not very interesting. All the interviews are jumbled word salad. “ transparency err accountability err go slow to go fast, err gobble gobble gobble”
So slack is not relevant for AI. Thanks for the info.
Do children in the future still have to go to school, or even higher education?
Where are all the workers? Those offices are deserted!
The world moved to working from home, time to get rid of the offices which are a waste of money
FT you all okay over there? what’s going on with your office space?
AI agents are training human to become machines. because human have to issue strictly formed queries
If folks get lazy with the critical thinking as a result of having AI, it's going to be a problem.
So we kant reed a map, can't do math in our heads , don't spell, our brains will rot.
AI agents will be like real employee and surely will do most of the tasks efficiently. May be better than trained humans.
A company using Lattice is a company I will not work for
I disagree with that AI persona tool, because there is no *AI Realist* option. AI is amazing, right up until you attempt to deliver real-world value, at which point hallucination, naive errors, misalignment, lack of business fit, and unintended consequences in human systems, all combine to make effective implementation far more difficult than expected.
Many of these are solvable issues, but it's difficult and context dependent. Many of these issues are irreconcilable, and so some of these dreams of both executives and *AI Maximalists* are destined for the dustbin.
Even low hanging fruit such as AI meeting transcription is difficult to get right, especially when faced with jargon, work product context, stakeholders, contributor identification, accents and mannerisms. Accurate AI meeting transcription is necessary to provide the AI with enough context-specific data to work with. Without context-specific data, frequent AI misalignment and naive errors are inevitable.
Add to this data security and privacy issues, and user acceptance issues, and legal exposure issues, and the set of *realistically* viable AI initiatives are further constricted.
This one quote is the most important in the entire video:
"One of the biggest downsides is that this is still quite a complicated technology, and I think people that have used AI know that it can also be a little bit unreliable. And when you have a complicated technology that's unreliable, you have got to be prepared for things to go a bit askew and awry."
- Azeem Azhar, CEO & Founder of Exponential View
Sky Net. Are we making our own replacements?
Loving it!! Looking forward to the AI revolution. It's a promise that needs to be met. Great video!!😊
The only thing I’m seeing it transform is my colleagues. Into stupider people who are losing basic skills that they’re outsourcing to a language model that doesn’t know what is true or false.
The downside no one speaks about is there will be less roles for juniors vs seniors...and then secondly, the rich will get richer and the poor poorer. He explained the seniors thing..senior people have been delegating work to juniors...now they will delegate it to AIs...eventually the AI will also become good at delegating tasks and will comfortably replace even senior people...but thats much later. The second less obvious thing is that the rich will become richer and the poor poorer. There is a lie being peddled by people like elon musk about AI leading to the rise of universal basic income. AI that works on your behalf but you get the salary...that stuff will never happen. AI is going to replace the need the rich to need the poor. Before, rich people still needed lower class people to do menial tasks...they needed a driver, a maid, a gardener etc...now all those roles will be replaced by robots and suddenly the rich wont need to pay poor people. The rich will get richer and the poor poorer because they will lose the few jobs they have. Eventually there will be big protests against AI and machines/robots...AI will be banned in certain spheres...new companies will push the fact that they hire real humans as an advantage...a feature of their products.
The question is which country will regulate it the more - that’s the country to move to.
Suka 👍
Was this video written by AI
If Ai takes over people's job. Do you think people will have children ?
well , I am a maximalims for AI lol
We might have AGI by 2030, so I guess no jobs for everyone
We’ll have to move to reducing the working week from 5 days down to say between 2-3 days per week. This is likely to be the new norm in 5-10 years time
نه😊
come on FT, this is insipid. Should have used AI to make this
No middle class anymore….
where?
Work- what? 😆😅🤣😂🤣🙃😉😋
AI persona drivel - blind leading the blind , might as well be reading horoscopes ....
„….this technology (AI) is developing so quickly“…. and that is exactly one of the issues with AI. Most Humans hardly understand the technology behind it, let alone the social, cognitive, and economic consequences that AI triggers. The current pace of AI development is too fast for humans and society to understand and adopt in a beneficial way.
AI right now is useless. It's like blockchain, all hype and little value.
Obviously they are talking about GenAI in most of this video - FT should be more clear about it. The Slack lady is clearly lacking experience- presenting the work she was talking about as some amazing breakthrough “why humans use or not use AI” - big smile attached of course. Just laughable.
A real nothing burger
I use AI religiously at work and I could tell you not the most reliable thing for now
I use it too but even if it’s really good, I only feel bad that my mind is no longer challenged to think.
@ I hear you. I must admit I used to hear people say that about Google back in the day.
@@issiewizziethis is different. writing was always a therapeutic exercise for me, but AI took that away for me. Now I am just asked to use chatgpt to produce content, rendering me entirely useless. Part of writing is thinking and getting answers in that way. But I know we have to accept this new reality.
AI will make most current work obsolete within the next 10-20 years. There is absolutely NO reason we should all “work for living” with the AI and Robotics tech arriving on the scene and set to replace us all shortly…