Depends on your industry and your career ambitions. If the company you work for is a laggard in adopting AI technologies and you don't see yourself changing companies, you could defer becoming comfortable with AI for a while, but eventually it will become mainstream and you could find yourself left behind.
As opposed to seeing AI tools as something new to be learned to help your company, think of them as something to make you more efficient or effective in both personal and professional endeavors.
It depends on many factors to individual jobs but generally, I would say no. I depend on AI as a glorified spell checker and quick email responses, but I don’t expect to use prompt engineering extensively within the next year or two, other than maybe general industry research or learning about the future potentials.
First, that kind of timeline to implement major computing functionality in a company where data quality and information security are both very important just isn’t feasible. Vetting the selected tool of choice through IT departments and writing guidance for appropriate use like what data sources are acceptable for use takes significantly longer than most people expect.
Second, most people aren’t very tech-savvy and don’t use nor understand most of the even basic analytics capabilities they have already. Most discussions I see regarding AI is using it for a search engine that returns a 1-page summary instead of links. I don’t believe it will vastly expand the analytics capabilities for most people without data science knowledge. If that ability is not critical to them now, it won’t be next year.
Finally, in terms of the psychology of change, it takes the majority of people around 2 years to be comfortable with significant change so regardless of the capabilities, the comfort level with using the AI tools will be more gradual. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Nirupama, generally speaking, those who do not embrace AI might be left behind in the future but how fast depends on many factors such as your organization adoption to AI, the industry and region you work in. Take for example Microsoft suite, using Microsoft word, excel, and PPT became the norm and a must so if someone doesn't know how to use them, they will be left behind as almost every job these days requires experience using those and I believe the same will happen with AI in the future. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
AI is a board term. We are using AI from more than 40 years ago sometimes without being aware on that. Saving Changes...
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