The “ideal” AI employees don’t take vacations or take cigarette breaks
AI employees will impact “every office worker” by 2030, warns ChatGPT developer Sam Altman. AI agents can independently learn new skills and use software. They will be able to perform roles such as nurse or software developer.
Imagine your dream employee: they don't take breaks, don't go on vacation and don't make appointments, writes the Daily Mail. Some industries may soon employ these types of workers. In recent months, several companies have announced the creation of artificially intelligent agents, or «artificial workers.»
These digital workers could transform the way we work — answering emails, processing invoices, responding to customer service requests and managing calendars — perhaps eliminating administrative staff or expensive third-party technology.
DailyMail .com spoke with Ed Broussard, CEO of artificial intelligence company Tomoro, who revealed that the productivity boost offered by these artificial employees will be so significant that it will lead to a three-day work week.
Broussard, whose company is collaborating with Sam Altman's OpenAI, told DailyMail.com we'll see rapid progress in these types of workers in the next two years.
AI tech company Nvidia and healthcare company Hippocratic AI recently announced about the beginning of cooperation in the development of “medical agents with artificial intelligence.” Companies hope their new artificial intelligence nurses can help solve the global healthcare worker shortage.
The Hippocratic researchers said the «nurses» will be trained in «extensive collection of sensitive data, including care plans, health care regulations, medical guidelines, drug databases and other high-quality medical records.»
So far, more than 1,000 nurses and 100 doctors have been tested by AI-powered healthcare workers in the US.
Earlier this month, AI software company Cognition became the first to develop an autonomous AI software engineer called Devin.
Devin can independently build websites and software applications within 20 minutes and can use the Internet to teach his skills.
The «engineer» was tasked with accepting requests to build websites and decided to start charging money himself, according to a Twitter post posted by Wharton professor Ethan Mollick.
In addition to AI workers, companies are already using AI-enhanced applications, with 40 percent of HR functions at companies worldwide being performed using automated technology, reports BBVA OpenMind.
The AI workforce is just getting started , notes the Daily Mail.
Broussard told DailyMail.com he believes the progress that will be made in just the next two years will be greater than anything the industry has achieved in the previous 75 years, adding that by the end of the decade, all office jobs will be «transformed» agents of artificial intelligence.
And the CTO is not the only expert who has spoken out about the major changes that AI can bring.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, predicted the use of AI in his book 'The Way Forward' almost three decades ago. He now believes that artificial workers will have a huge impact on education and healthcare, claiming that they will be «the biggest revolution in computing since , how we went from typing commands to clicking icons.»
Gates believes artificial intelligence agents will replace Internet search engines and shopping sites such as Amazon.
Broussard believes that the productivity gains provided by digital workers will be so significant that they will lead to a shift to a three-day workweek, and adds that in the near future technology will take over administrative and research functions in several industries, including legal, investment and marketing .
He put it this way: «One of the most commonly used agents we use is a fact extraction agent. It specializes in reading large amounts of documents and extracting all the facts and useful information in a form that other AI agents can easily read. This can then be used for many different business applications: reviewing legal documents, investment analysis, customer research, even providing the necessary information to call center employees or negotiating prices on large contracts.»
Ed Broussard believes that large organizations , which cannot begin to use «artificial employees» will simply disappear in the next decade.
Broussard told DailyMail.com: «Organizations that quickly adapt, start experimenting and working on human-AI interactions will see huge gains in productivity, impact and well-being. Those that fall behind will essentially fall by the wayside. Large organizations have a huge advantage because they have a lot of customers, personal data and access to computing power, but the value of all three of these factors will decline, and large companies that do not take advantage of their advantages will soon begin to decline and eventually disappear, replaced by new firms, working on the basis of artificial intelligence.”
The expert also predicted that agents with artificial intelligence will completely abandon administration — people will not have to search for information, fill out forms or book hotels, but instead will turn to a digital assistant.
He added: «We'll see completely different ways of working, new roles emerging and organizations shifting the work that would normally limit human creativity to AI agents — this could liberate people. Because the impact a human can have begins to depend on the number of hours he spends at work, we may have to rethink the way we think and work. It is possible that we will move to a three-day work week or even less, and the best performers will not be the smartest and hardest working, but the ones who trains AI agents best.”
Broussard, however, argues that AI agents are not yet ready to completely replace the nurse or software developer: “We are still a long way from having an agent with artificial intelligence has completely replaced the nurse or software developer. We've seen agents perform some of these functions and perform them well, for example artificial intelligence is often better at recognizing cancer cells in scans than humans, but that's not the whole job of a radiologist. It is much more likely that agents will be created as capabilities that can be combined for different purposes.”