Starting to learn how to use it at work. Pretty much have no choice. It's been made pretty clear, learn to use it and use it well, or expect to be replaced by someone who does use it and use it well.
I will say, there is AI, and then there is AI. And it's a pretty broad spectrum. Just saying "AI" kind of doesn't even mean anything anymore. It's like saying "gun". What kind of gun? Cap gun, pistol, machine gun, artillery? What kind of AI? LLM? Generative? Free? Paid but publicly available? Very expensive and not available to the public? Not available to the public at any price? Comparing the free ChatGPT and CoPilot type stuff to super expensive AI used by big corporations (like the one I work for) and gov't is like comparing a fly swatter to a .50 BMG. And no big company that utilizes data isn't using it. If they aren't using it themselves they are paying companies like the one I work for to use it for them. Our clients include, the Fed, the CIA, the FBI, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, many huge insurance companies, many huge banks, many state and local gov'ts.
Love it, hate it or just don't care. It's here to stay and it's changing the face of business, work, the economy and the balance of world power at an astonishing rate and it is just going to keep accelerating. The industry I work in - software development - is being transformed by AI so fast I don't even try to keep up with what is happening. I don't have time to consume that much constantly changing information. Nobody does. Companies use AI to try and keep abreast of the changes being wrought by AI.
- DAA
