Gen AI – doing what you are not good at!
Generative AI like Microsoft CoPilot will not make you better at what you are already good at, when first I tried using Copilot to draft answers to emails for me, it failed and therefore I failed – the results were not what I would write, I was not impressed.
But, at least half of the tasks I have to do every day are not what I am best at, things like “finding the email 2 years ago where I was introduced to a consultant” (try finding this in your inbox) or creating a “Job Description” for a new hire, summarise my last Teams meeting with actions for everyone and next steps etc etc, all tasks that I have to do all the time and they take more effort than the work I am good at because I have to “mind reset” and find the data I need to start……. and using my data mixed in with what I am allowed to access from the business – all at a cost of less than 15-30 minutes of an employees salary per month?
Would I have everyone in the business using Copilot? NO – I would however spend the time teaching the best people in my company how they can utilise an LLM and have them “armed” with the appropriate licenses because it makes the things I am not good at, so much easier to complete.
If you use Copilot hen you know your data stays within corp boundaries, if you pay for a third party LLM then this should also be true but check for yourself.
If you are NOT paying for an LLM, some of your staff are already breaking the rules and sharing your data with everybody on the planet through something that is free to use.
Some stats from Microsoft, which made me think to write this today:
Microsoft Stats
“Already, AI is being woven into the workplace at an unexpected scale. 75% of knowledge workers use AI at work today, and 46% of users started using it less than six months ago. It’s paying off:
“Users say AI helps them save time (90%), focus on their most important work (85%), be more creative (84%), and enjoy their work more (83%).
The heaviest Teams users (the top 5%) summarized 8 hours of meetings using Copilot in the month of March, the equivalent of an entire workday.””
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/ai-at-work-is-here-now-comes-the-hard-part
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