The 10-minute AI lobotomy is here
Are productivity gains worth the cost of a mindless workforce?
Add BT as a preferred source
OVER the last few months, I have been battling a ghost in my machine. This non-corporeal pest haunts me as I write e-mails, interjecting with suggested words or proposing that I rephrase various turns of phrase.
I have irritably clicked these interventions away, my internal diatribe growing progressively deranged: “Yah, I know your suggestion is more concise, but I don’t want to sound concise, I want to sound like me so that I can simulate bonhomie through this sorry proxy for human interaction. You would know this if you weren’t a piece of silicon, now please shut up.”
Apparently, I’ve been engaging in a petty and low-stakes version of a universal professional struggle – the temptation to outsource tasks to artificial intelligence and the devilish trade-offs that result.
TRENDING NOW
DBS completes US$1 billion significant risk transfer deal, a first for Singapore bank
Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan’s sell-downs point to pruning rather than an exit plan
Singapore private housing is ‘decoupling’ from HDB market as buyer pools diverge: NUS survey
Not in education, employment or training: Why more Hong Kong youths are opting out of work
