You think employee-generated content is bad now?
In 1968's Star Trek episode,"The Ultimate Computer," Captain Kirk had his ship used to test M5, a new computer. A copilot, if you will, for the Starship Enterprise.indeed did those jobs very well yet with such a terrifying lack of understanding it had to be disabled. But not before exacting a terrible price., the first of many finely judged increments in the old style.
Pop up its sidebar in Loop or Teams, and it can auto-summarize what has been said. It can suggest questions, auto-populate meeting agendas. Or you can give it key points in a prompt and it will auto-generate documents, presentations, and other content. It can create clip art to spruce up those documents, PowerPoints, and content.
The drive is always to abdicate the dull business of gathering data and thinking about it, and communicating the results. All can be fed as prompts to the machine, and the results presented as your own. Human cognition is not the limiting factor of workflow. Under-stimulated boredom, tedium-induced laziness, performing actions that add nothing, and fear of failure-powered mediocrity are the enemies. All these find very comfortable new berths in corporate AI.
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