AI on the Job: How generative tools automate and augment some parts of work

Marketplace Tech

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

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You might have heard some of the talk about how new generative artificial intelligence tools, like chatbots and image generators, could upend work. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is diving deeper into the disruptions this technology is already bringing to workplaces — not in some speculative future, but right now. In our series this week, “AI on the Job,” we’ll explore the work that AI is automating, augmenting or creating entirely new markets for.

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0:00.0	Marketplace Morning reports new Skin in the Game series explores what we can learn about
0:04.6	money and careers from the $300 billion video game industry. Plus, here how an Oakland-based
0:11.0	program helps young people get the skills they need to break into this booming industry.
0:15.9	Listen to Skin in the Game and more from the Marketplace Morning report wherever you get your
0:20.7	podcasts. It's been framed as a productivity powerhouse, a crutch, or a competitor. But what's
0:30.1	really happening right now with AI on the job? From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.
0:36.9	I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.
0:48.5	So, you might have heard there's a lot of talk about how new generative artificial intelligence
0:54.7	tools like chatbots and image generators could up-end work. AI has just taken off massively
1:03.2	over the last few months. Tonight, a stark warning that artificial intelligence could lead to
1:07.5	the extinction of humanity. AI is already in the workforce. Artificial intelligence website
1:13.6	known as chatgbt. We have to defend our position when someone asks us, why higher are you as
1:19.1	opposed to just getting AI? This week, we're diving deeper into how this technology is already
1:25.2	disrupting workplaces, not in some speculative future, but now. In our week-long series AI on
1:32.3	the job, we'll explore the work AI is automating, augmenting, or creating an entirely new market for.
1:40.1	Kamala Shalardi says AI is already widely used in many industries. She's the CEO of Lardi
1:46.6	and Partner, a consulting company in Switzerland. We've seen automation as well of complex tasks,
1:52.6	as well as acceleration of decision-making processes and creation of high-value insights for
1:59.2	quicker decision-making for quicker and accelerated business activities. As a consultant, Lardi sees
2:05.2	an increasing number of large companies looking to generative AI to take over mundane administrative
2:11.5	tasks, but this technology can do more than automate routine work. We are seeing generative AI
2:19.6	systems really able to create good content and also generate original content, which was something
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