Today, I was asked to attend a Copilot AI meeting with my boss. After we were in the meeting, we started chatting about AI in general. I mentioned concerns that when done incorrectly, it's akin to crowdsourcing information from random people via Wikipedia. Also, data privacy is nonexistent. I don't dare put proprietary information into a prompt. My boss didn't disagree one bit.
We agreed it has limited uses, such as checking for grammar, rewording sentences, etc., but no real heavy lifting. I also brought up that relying on AI to do the "heavy lifting" in our positions long-term will cause our skills to deteriorate to our own detriment.
Make no mistake. I'm not in the least bit threatened by AI. My position isn't going anywhere. AI can't even discern that an awkward pause on a basic interview question should raise a red flag as to whether or not we decide to hire someone. It's the worst "Yes Man" you could expect. Every bad idea you ever came up with, would suddenly be affirmed.
People want to think AI will do amazing things. It very well might in limited capacity, with heavy oversight. Without guidance, AI can't even create a Mad Lib for a team building exercise without getting stuck on a theme of lighthouses and space.
AI can be great. It made the main image for this post far better than I ever could. AI can help you design a car, but by the time we've become so lazy and inept that we're considering having AI drive for us, maybe we need to either hire a chaffeur or, better yet, rethink how we use it and maybe dial it back a bit.
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