Interesting blog post by author and computer scientist Cal Newport. He notes that workers who use AI tools feel busier, but actually get less work done.
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This hasn’t been my experience. I feel like a got a scribe and secretary back after many years going it alone in the corporate jungle.
This week:
(we) drafted a governance and standards document - from thin air
(we) summarized notes from several back to back meetings, generating action items, next steps, key points, etc.
(we) wrote scripts for elevator pitches (filming next week)
(we) realigned multinational colleagues in 4 different languages without waiting for my teams to wake up.
Of course, I have to check all of the work that “we” have done, but that takes 2-4 minutes. It turns out that editing and copy checking is much simpler than “drafting”.
Actually, it’s made me even better in meetings as I no longer worry about capturing notes, I now spend a bunch more effort clarifying, promoting and emphasizing actions, owners and takeaways for the team. (which (WE) then make into better notes afterwards)
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I think this illustrates what AI is really good at (what you list) and what it still struggles with. For example:
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I had to laugh. That example is yet another reason why a human in the loop will be standard practice for quite some time.