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t cht lk decision making will be deterministic – decisions will be predetermined by humans making decision trees .

t cht lk decision making will be deterministic – decisions will be predetermined by humans making decision trees .

The agency available to the machine will be very narrow – so it ’ s a stretch to think that AI systems established by companies will bring us to an extinction-level endgame .
The ability for AI systems to perform actual reasoning and decision-making has come closer over the past few years , but it is still far from being a reality .
As more organizations restructure themselves around conversational AI they will get more work done and the AI ’ s ability to automate increasingly sophisticated tasks will make IDWs trusted and revered teammates .
Still , even as these systems mature , decision making should remain human led .
Both strategy and reason should be top-of-mind for massive corporations and headstrong upstarts alike .
Conversational AI could lead us to a world where abundance is shared , productivity is enjoyable and people live as equals in relative harmony .
Putting profits and shareholders ahead of the well-being of employees and our home planet is a dangerous trajectory to maintain as these technologies take root in our lives .
The skills that IDWs run are created by humans .
Ideally , they are created by humans who best understand the tasks they are seeking to automate .
These humans create these skills using low- and nocode design tools that essentially enable them to write software conversationally .
Many of the structures and goals assigned to ‘ business ’ at large simply aren ’ t sustainable and applying AI to them seems likely to hasten our demise . On the other side of this , organizations that use conversational AI to improve experiences for their employees first can unleash a new paradigm for productivity that will fuel the automations they share with customers .
Humans can come up with ideas for automations , quickly build frameworks for the skills that will execute the automations , test these skills and iterate on them .
Most importantly , humans and IDWs are in continual contact via human-in-the-loop ( HitL ).
This powerful design pattern has IDWs turning to humans when they don ’ t know how to proceed or in moments where one human needs to interact with another .
The ongoing process of HitL provides critical guardrails for the broad adoption of AI within an organization .
If AGI is going to emerge from a decentralized , widespread system of computing resources it seems possible that significant portions of it will emerge from within companies that have achieved organizational AI as they communicate with and learn from one another .
This means that the organizations that get it right in the coming years will have a massive impact on the AGI that emerges in a decade or so .
In one respect , getting right means adopting a holistic strategy that brings AI into all aspects of your organization , not collecting piles of bolt-on tools .
HitL is also fundamental to training these systems . With humans designing and maintaining the skills that these AI systems execute , most of the reasoning and
Getting right also means thinking carefully about what it is you want to do with these powerful machines that are learning evermore by the minute . p
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