Futurology

I guess I’m in the minority then, and that’s fine by me.

• AI generated meeting notes make it easy to produce summaries and action items for all parties, including those who couldn’t make the meeting
• I can give Copilot a few sentences recounting a story and what key points I want to convey in an essay and it writes most of it for me, often in a more professional sounding tone than I would have written. I spend 5 minutes in the front and 5 minutes on the back and it cuts down the remaining 30 minutes to hour it would have taken.
• I’ve used it to find and replace portions of code and XML. I’ve used it to redact PII in user stories. I’ve used it to assist me in making SOWs and help content more clear and robust.
• Education is using it to help identify college students who need more support prior to dropping out.
• Biologists recently used it to help determine the folding patterns of nearly every protein that does or could exist, which will likely lead to very precise medications that combat cancers and illnesses.
• Per a recent Malcolm Gladwell podcast I heard, fire chiefs can now use AI to listen to multiple radio channels at the same time in a large fire fighting scenario and have it identify firefighters who are in the most distress, therefore mitigating risk and saving lives.

AI is buzzy now, and buzz deserves a healthy bit of scrutiny. As we move down the hype curve, I think we’ll achieve a certain threshold that’s going to vastly improve the human experience and perhaps improve how we live with rest of this planet too.