Do you need AI?

A brief retrospective

Never in the history of the human race have we had so much information readily available at our fingertips. The limitation used to be finding, reading, and understanding this information, as a human only has two eyes to read and two hands to type. AI has dramatically changed this. A single person can now process a multitude of files by delegating mundane tasks to AI.

Granted, some say that interaction is now at a surface level, without a human having a full understanding, which is true. But look at it from another lens: instead of finding 10 articles and fully comprehending them, I can now find 1,000 articles and quickly gain some context. If I choose to, I can dive deep into those 1,000 articles and select 100 to study in depth and become an expert.

Regardless of your personal feelings towards AI, it is here to stay. Just like the tractor that replaced donkeys, artificial intelligence (a bit of a misnomer, more like Google Search on steroids) will replace the majority of manual tasks that humans do today.

What can you do

Just like the marvel of the Industrial Revolution, which initially brought skepticism and fear but ultimately led to increased productivity and wealth creation, AI should be utilized fully (with a healthy dose of awareness).

Use it to help you clean your inbox, organize your calendar events, fix grammar, provide you with recommendations, and experiment with different thought processes. Dive a bit deeper and teach AI to recognize an email sender and perform certain steps based on explicit, step-by-step instructions. Go all in and save all this learned data so AI can develop a sort of “memory” to quickly reference and analyze its current objective.

And while doing so, make sure to double-check the work, because AI can and will make mistakes (just like a human).

Explore and wonder

Now that you’ve freed up a few hours a week, use that time to learn something new and look at your processes from outside the box. Especially now that AI is doing the grunt work, you no longer have the same time constraints.

Look at your organization from a high level and see how data moves from point A to point B. Identify the spots where it gets stuck or blocked by another human, a piece of software, or an unknown variable.

If you need help with the above, contact us. At Nematic, we are masters of finding what is hard to see and unblocking what is hard to move.

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