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Putting AI to Work – How AI is Disrupting the Workplace

Putting AI to Work – How AI is Disrupting the Workplace

Artificial intelligence is bringing us novel opportunities but also novel challenges. This presentation presents some of these new opportunities and risks, and considers the implications for the workplace.

Gerard de Melo

October 13, 2020
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  1. Putting AI to Work –
    How AI is Disrupting the Workplace
    Gerard de Melo
    Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
    http://gerard.demelo.org
    Putting AI to Work –
    How AI is Disrupting the Workplace
    Gerard de Melo
    Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
    http://gerard.demelo.org
    Image via www.vpnsrus.com

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  2. What's the best insurance for
    a person at age 60?
    Customer Service Bots
    Customer Service Bots
    http://dialoguesystems.org/

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  3. What's the best insurance for
    a person at age 60?
    Are you asking about regular medical
    insurance or dental insurance?
    Customer Service Bots
    Customer Service Bots
    ...
    http://dialoguesystems.org/

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  4. Meeting Scheduling
    Meeting Scheduling

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  5. Meeting Scheduling
    Meeting Scheduling

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  6. Design & Creativity
    Design & Creativity
    Design & Creativity
    Design & Creativity
    Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo. FontLex: A Typographical Lexicon based on Affective Associations /
    Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo. Paralinguistic Recommendations for Affective Word Clouds. Proc. IUI
    http://gerard.demelo.org/projects.html

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  7. Design & Creativity
    Design & Creativity
    Design & Creativity
    Design & Creativity

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  8. Understanding & Writing
    Understanding & Writing
    Understanding & Writing
    Understanding & Writing
    Recent NLP
    models can
    write long texts
    providing detailed
    answers
    to certain kinds of
    questions
    Recent NLP
    models can
    write long texts
    providing detailed
    answers
    to certain kinds of
    questions

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  9. Public Domain Image from https://pixabay.com/en/book-text-read-paper-education-451067/
    Outline
    Outline
    Opportunities
    Challenges of Putting AI to Work
    Implications for the Workplace

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  10. Risk of AI Misuse
    Risk of AI Misuse
    Risk of AI Misuse
    Risk of AI Misuse
    Image:
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles_Ehrlich,_judge.jpg
    More Information:
    https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compas-recidivism-algorithm
    Reason: COMPAS System predicts
    you might commit crimes
    Reason: COMPAS System predicts
    you might commit crimes
    No parole granted
    (you need to stay in prison)
    No parole granted
    (you need to stay in prison)

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  11. Risk of AI Misuse
    Risk of AI Misuse
    Risk of AI Misuse
    Risk of AI Misuse
    Essays are being graded by
    automated algorithms. Algorithms
    determine your life and career path.
    (with risk of bias!)
    Essays are being graded by
    automated algorithms. Algorithms
    determine your life and career path.
    (with risk of bias!)
    More Information:
    https://www.npr.org/2018/06/30/624373367/more-states-opting-to-robo-grade-student-essays-by-computer

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  12. Solution: Explainable AI
    Solution: Explainable AI
    Solution: Explainable AI
    Solution: Explainable AI
    Fu et al. Fairness-Aware Explainable Recommendation over Knowledge Graphs. In: Proceedings of SIGIR 2020.
    http://gerard.demelo.org/publications.html

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  13. AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    It needs to be used
    very carefully.
    It needs to be used
    very carefully.
    Image:

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  14. Public Domain Image from https://pixabay.com/en/book-text-read-paper-education-451067/
    Outline
    Outline
    Opportunities
    Challenges of Putting AI to Work
    Implications for the Workplace

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  15. Top Jobs 1980
    Top Jobs 1980
    Image: Sainsbury
    Study by Quoctrung Bui, NPR, 2015-02, based Census Bureau data, excluding the two catch-all categories
    "managers not elsewhere classified" and "salespersons not elsewhere classified."
    http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-most-common-job-in-every-state

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  16. Top Jobs 2014
    Top Jobs 2014
    Image: Sainsbury
    Study by Quoctrung Bui, NPR, 2015-02, based Census Bureau data, excluding the two catch-all categories
    "managers not elsewhere classified" and "salespersons not elsewhere classified."
    http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-most-common-job-in-every-state

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  17. Example:
    Self-Driving Vehicles
    Example:
    Self-Driving Vehicles
    Image: Daimler Benz

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  18. Example:
    Self-Driving Vehicles
    Example:
    Self-Driving Vehicles
    Image: Daimler Benz

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  19. Example:
    Traditional Travel Agencies
    Example:
    Traditional Travel Agencies
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STA_Travel_in_Oxford_(geograph_3818682).jpg

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  20. AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    It can do a lot of things,
    but often not the things
    you need.
    It can do a lot of things,
    but often not the things
    you need.

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  21. AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    AI is just a Tool
    It will not replace
    all office work.
    It will not replace
    all office work.

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  22. More Online Collaboration
    More Online Collaboration
    Work from home
    Cloud collaboration tools
    Work from home
    Cloud collaboration tools

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  23. Project-Driven Work
    Project-Driven Work
    Image: Microsoft
    Consulting companies
    Online marketplaces
    Gig economy
    Consulting companies
    Online marketplaces
    Gig economy

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  24. Greater Productivity,
    New Opportunities
    Greater Productivity,
    New Opportunities

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  25. Greater Productivity,
    New Opportunities
    Greater Productivity,
    New Opportunities

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  26. Greater Productivity,
    New Opportunities
    Greater Productivity,
    New Opportunities
    Create a video
    in 1 hour
    instead of days
    Create a video
    in 1 hour
    instead of days

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  27. Outlook
    Outlook
    In the future, every decision
    that mankind makes is going
    to be informed by a cognitive
    system [...] and our lives will
    be better for it.
    Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO

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  28. x
    x
    감사합니다
    gracias
    x thank you
    Summary
    Summary
    Summary
    Summary
    Major New Opportunities
    ► Example: Customer service
    ► AI can be creative
    ► NLP and Understanding
    Important Risks
    ► Examples: Trust, Bias
    ► Possible solution:
    Explainable AI
    AI in the Workplace
    ► Some jobs less relevant
    ► But AI is just a tool
    ► Greater productivity, new
    opportunities for humans
    Get in Touch!
    gerard.demelo.org
    [email protected]
    Get in Touch!
    gerard.demelo.org
    [email protected]
    x 谢谢
    x
    Vielen Dank
    спаси́бо
    x

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