RESEARCH SOURCE (WELCOME TO THE ERA OF THE AI COWORKER), Miranda Katz, https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-the-era-of-the-ai-coworker/
NOTES FROM SOURCE: Copy/paste or paraphrase relevant details from the source. If you copy/paste be sure you include quotation marks!
- “Google had spent the better part of 2016 reworking its translation tool to be powered by AI—and in doing so, it had created something unnervingly powerful. Google Translate, once known for producing stilted but passable translations, had begun producing fluid, highly accurate prose. The kind of output that, to the untrained eye, was nearly indistinguishable from human translation”.
- “This presents workers with a choice: Set aside your ego and embrace your new AI coworker, or get left behind”.
- “The Washington Post’s in-house AI, Heliograf, published some 850 stories last year, with human reporters and editors adding analysis and colorful details. In graphic design, AI tools can now generate a first pass at designs, leaving the final execution to human designers”.
- “At Fennemore Craig, an Arizona-based corporate law firm, lawyers have jumped aboard the AI train, piloting a new technology from a startup called ROSS Intelligence. Using a combination of IBM Watson and proprietary algorithms, ROSS is the AI-driven successor to tools like LexisNexis: It combs through millions of pages of case law and writes up its findings in a draft memo. The process, which might take a human lawyer four days, takes ROSS roughly 24 hours”.
- “ And it’s critical to the startup’s success that lawyers not fear ROSS—after all, who wants to train their replacements? That’s why CEO Andrew Arruda touts ROSS as a productivity tool rather than an AI attorney; it allows lawyers to serve even more clients and focus on the interesting parts of their jobs”.
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TITLE OF BLOG POST: Will AI be good or bad for society in the future?
INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: Should contain the following 3 components: (1) Opening lead sentence to get audience’s attention. (2) Who/what is the source & why is it reliable (3) Your blog post’s thesis which connects your research question, to the economic principle and what you learned from this research source. AI may not be super advanced in it’s current state but the stepping stones of its integration are reassuring. The article found at the Wired by Miranda Katz goes into detail as to how AI is being integrated into businesses to make them more efficient.
2-3 SMALL BODY PARAGRAPHS (Organizes and analyzes evidence from the source about author’s argument). See ideas for organizing your blog post here. Break writing into easy to read paragraphs, format font to make it easier to follow main ideas, etc.) Google and Microsoft claim to be the global leaders in AI advancement and in 2016 Google made advancements in their google translation tool by integrating AI into it. This AI integration into the translating tool had people amazed because the tool before was known to be faulty. But with the AI powered tool it learned over time from its mistakes. This seems harmful to people who are in the translating business but those people just need to be able to differentiate themselves versus the tool so they don’t get replaced. The Washington Post has its own AI who published 850 stories but the catch with this AI is that it isn’t perfect. This AI needs correction from other editors and writers for various reasons but it’s important to them because it can create time for them which allows them to focus on other stories. Again this case of AI is not replacing jobs but just helping those that already have the jobs. Adaption it key but the person needs to be able to work with that AI. An Arizona based law firm uses their own version of AI to do the job that a beginning intern may do which would be to go through millions of pages and create a small summary of those pages. The AI is not advanced enough to that case through the next step but it’s a helping hand that could take a lawyer a few days to create while the AI does it overnight.
