4IR Podcast - 002 - Early Career Skills in the Age of AI + Spread of Misinformation

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Welcome to the team Anna!

Hi David, I've been enjoying your channel and appreciated today's discussion with your Gen Z guest about the importance of communication skills in our AI-driven era. As a latecomer to technology, completing the Oxford AI Program last year opened my eyes to the possibilities of prompt engineering and data analytics, even without coding skills. I'm fascinated by the intersection of technology and human skills. As a Gen X Lean Sigma expert, I value working with tech-savvy younger generations to teach them about social skills and organizational change. Your insights are inspiring, and I'm excited to further my AI expertise and apply these skills effectively. I look forward to more enlightening content on your channel, especially the philosophical discussions about post-labor economics.

Something I’ve seen as a manager, line pilot, an instructor. Employees often cannot see the big picture just like managers cannot see the fine-tunes details. Furthermore the priorities of everyone involved are often misaligned. I would draw a chart with 3 mountains and explain how if you were standing on a school mountaintop you cannot see into the valley 2 mountains over and vice versa. That’s why the new people and people low in the totem pole have to communicate and management has a duty to their employees to share as much information as possible. The decisions you make should make sense to the lowest person in the organization if possible. Most companies don’t do that, but in safety sensitive applications, it’s critical because leadership cannot set policy if they don’t know what’s going on and workers will ignore that policy if it’s stupid. Anyway, Anna, be cautious with what you say though, many companies do not operate with this sort of mindset. Many companies are vindictive

Good one. Would like more on this topic - specific skills to build in this era.

Interesting and warm conversation

This was a great video 😊. I feel like 2 people collaborating on ideas helps to expand out imagination. It was fun to explore some ideas outside of my usual thinking

Thrilled to have you on board, Anna! Your journey from the library to the forefront of AI in technology is truly inspiring. With your distinctive blend of expertise, you're poised to add incredible depth to our conversations about AI's transformative impact on business. Eager to dive into your experiences and gain your valuable perspectives on tackling misinformation and mastering AI applications early in your career, demonstrating that success in tech relies on skill and insight, not appearances. Here's to a series of truly enlightening episodes ahead!

Liked that format, thanks

There needs to be new jobs of those non-domain specific experts to properly answer questions from these LLMs that can train off real workers, obviously this should be paid premium to human workers.

Fellow MLIS! (SU ‘22). Had my “oh shit” moment when I started playing around with GPT-2. Took an NLP course and never looked back.

Interesting to hear Anna, at the start of her career,describing herself as a polymath. Having worked in the similar as her for over two decades I have noticed a definite narrowing of job roles and job adverts down to very specific knowledge and experience requirements. Maybe the move to online recruitment, maybe increasing job complexity or lack of internal development and training.

Huge welcome to Anna!!!!!!!!!

My eldest is 15 2E. I no longer have any idea how to guide him. The go to was always get him to University where he will find his people, now I am not so sure. It doesn’t help that public education is doing little to prepare students for an evolving future.

Employees learning AI is the best method to teach their replacements, plus gaining needed skills post-labor. Everyone, baseline AI training, full stop. CEOs shouldn't cut staff without integration first. 🙏

yeah here from brasil, we are like super behind it, i worked in qa on it, and the owner was like an american boomer, they should have invested in ai tools for management because ohhh boy its horrible

5:46 I agree. Learning how to learn and meeting others to learn from (not just instructors). I would be in my own intellectual bubble if I didn’t go to university. That being said university isn’t the only path to achieving that. I dream of salons of the past where we can all come together ( in person) discuss the big ideas without imposed hierarchy of academia.

I work in customer service taking calls. I expect the tech to replace me will exist "long" before i actually lose my job (if it doesnt already) It just seems like in an unexpected way: politics and policy will be the brake on advancement as opposed to technolgical limitations... Whats weird to me is how we only talk about replacing coders or laborers when both seem to have way more obstacles to overcome than something like my position (security / consistency, and infrastructure / hardware respectively) But taking calls? OpenAI could outperform every agent on all phones worldwide by the end of the year... Its not that im so worried about my job, on the contrary: i COULDNT be more stoked about what comes next! Its just strange its not talked about how fast CS jobs will go... I predict fasyer than most of the ones people are actually discussing...

"The most valuable skills are going to be interpersonal, face to face, making and maintaining professional relationships." As a 99th percentile introvert? I'd literally rather dig ditches 12 hours a day than have that be any significant part of my life. I have no Fs to give for the repulsively phoney relationships that saturate corporate culture. They are violence at the level of the soul.

I wonder what an AI would be like, that is the most consistant Christian.