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I saw another article today saying how companies are laying off tech workers because AI can do the same job. But no concrete examples... again. I figure they are laying people off so they can pay to chase the AI dream. Just mortgaging tomorrow to pay for today's stock price increase. Am I wrong?

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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I agree completely.

We have an AI bot that scans the support tickets that come in for our business.

It has a pretty low success rate of maybe 10% or 20% accuracy in helping with the answer.

It puts its answer into the support ticket it does not reply to the customer directly. That would be a disaster.

But 10% or so of our workload has now been shouldered off to the AI, which means our existing team can be more efficient by approximately 10%.

It's been relatively helpful in training new employees also. They can read what the AI suggests and see if it is correct or not. And in learning if it is correct or not, they are learning our systems.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They can read what the AI suggests and see if it is correct or not.

What's this process look like? Or are there any rails that prevent the new employee from blinding trusting what the AI is suggesting?

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Well, as they are new and they are in training, the new employee has to show their response to their team members before they reply.

If they are going to reply incorrectly we stop them and show them what's wrong with it.

We are quite small and it's nice to just to help us with this process.

The bot is trained on our actual knowledge base data. Basic queries, it really does a great job, but when it's something more system based or that is probably user error, then it can get a bit fuzzy.

That’s also true when processing bills. The AI can give you suggestions, which often require some tweaking. However, some times the proposed numbers are spot on, which is nice. If you measure the productivity of a particular step in a long process, I would estimate that AI can give it a pretty good boost. However, that’s just one step, so by the end of the week, the actual time savings are really marginal. Well, better than nothing, I guess.