{"id":4091,"date":"2023-08-20T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T03:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10043\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2024-07-17T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T18:25:51","slug":"always-changing-tech-world-can-teach-us-all-a-lesson-about-looming-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atiba.com\/always-changing-tech-world-can-teach-us-all-a-lesson-about-looming-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Always-changing tech world can teach us all a lesson about looming AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared in\u00a0The Tennessean<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s been much written over the past year about the impact Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have on work as we know it.<\/p>\n

Estimates ranging from 20% to 80% of the current human workforce will be made obsolete by AI in the coming years. \u00a0And some envision an even more dire scenario: as AI improves, there could eventually be no need for a human workforce at all.<\/p>\n

I decided to ask the go-to AI bot itself, ChatGPT, what it thought.\u00a0 Its answer wasn\u2019t all that surprising\u2014it doesn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

In my day job as a technology consultant, dealing with rapid change is nothing new. I remember studying day and night to master Novell NetWare (the dominant networking software at the time) only to have it fall out of favor a year later as Microsoft took over.\u00a0 I spent years learning to code in Visual Basic before it was replaced by other programming languages that were more efficient.<\/p>\n

The rise of the internet, the migration to the cloud, the demise of Lotus 123 and WordPerfect\u2014when it comes to technology the only thing that is constant is change.<\/p>\n

In the tech world, we\u2019re used to this. It\u2019s never easy to adjust to the latest thing every few years. But the mindset has always been to embrace new technologies and leverage them to make life better.<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence is no doubt a dramatic change, but the techie mindset still applies. It\u2019s not just about the threats surrounding AI\u2014but also about the opportunities.<\/p>\n

How can AI help our business improve?\u00a0 Can we leverage AI to help us grow?\u00a0 How can we embrace AI to help our employees rather than replace them?<\/p>\n

Every company’s answer will be different. For our tech consulting firm that does everything from custom software<\/a> development to IT support, we have been busy analyzing what AI might do for us.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a few of the AI opportunities we have come up with so far:<\/p>\n