No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector...yet. I think it's partially because our harnesses are generally much, much better. And engineers seem to be more deft at figuring out where AI provides real benefit and where it needs a watchful eye.
I'm seeing non-engineers use AI to send more emails, have more meetings, create more documents, and create more dashboards. So much of the busy work that happens in corporate environments was never that valuable in the first place. A firehose of busy work doesn't move any needles that matter.
There is nothing I dislike more than people using AI to generate tens of pages in text and then expect people to read them, when they did not read them themselves.
Well this is an actual effect. It is so easy now to generate presentations etc so as a consequence there are ten times as many that people seem to expect you to read. Productivity is higher but that which is produced sucks and is pointless. Actual value creation is harder than nice looking artifacts.
Copilot schedules the meeting, takes notes during the meeting, chirps at you via teams during the meeting, provides a summary in Teams after the meeting parroting what you just heard, and then asks if you want it to schedule a follow-up. It's so helpful![/sarc]
I'm seeing non-engineers use AI to send more emails, have more meetings, create more documents, and create more dashboards. So much of the busy work that happens in corporate environments was never that valuable in the first place. A firehose of busy work doesn't move any needles that matter.