How does AI affect your current career / job?

[bazera]

1 hour ago, LordFall said:

I have to learn how to produce high quality AI pictures of clients and also some kind of real life socialization component to stand on top of the marketplace. I do dating photography as one of my businesses. 

What do you mean AI pictures of clients? 

What specific ways do you use AI for dating photography?

You do editing with AI instead of traditional Adobe way?

[LordFall]

6 hours ago, bazera said:

What do you mean AI pictures of clients? 

What specific ways do you use AI for dating photography?

You do editing with AI instead of traditional Adobe way?

Right now I do actual photoshoots with light retouching with Photoshoot/lightroom/Faceapp. It's been shown to me though that people can replicate full photoshoots with just living room face pictures at a fraction of the cost and similar if not better results so I have to do my own tests and be able to produce the cutting edge AI pictures to remain industry leading. 

I thought it would come up as fake but unless you go overboard I know a guy who got a GF off of fully AI pictures and over multiple dates with different women didn't come up as a topic of conversation. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Hasn't effected my job much - it has assisted with offloading menial admin tasks (meeting minutes, compiling, budget reports). 

But in terms of estimating and project management / contract administration? No effect. AI can't deal with any sort of plan reading or takeoffs. It has no intuition for estimating because it cannot integrate the process of building and the logistics needed with the plans and written specifications. Even when extracting data it makes HUGE errors that could cost our business tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, in losses. Our typical bids are between 400k for a small job up to 6mill.

It can do some basic plan work, but will never replace my work while AI remains an LLM. And there are no universal standards for plans. So every set is COMPLETELY different. And most plansets are incomplete and rely on design and construct. It simply cannot fill in the gaps.

Project management / contracts admin - it can help with interpretation of the legalities when problems arise and we need to lean on the head contact. Really good to feed it a contract and ask for clarification/context.

There is legit way too much going on in construction for it to have much of an 'on the ground' effect. It's all people skills, coordination, logistics, material orders, shop drawings and multi-variable shit that goes into building a hospital. 

You want something done in construction? Pick up the phone. LLMs have zero impact there. Only good for documenting. And even then I have to revise and check. I can touch type out something faster than I can have AI compile and then me fine tooth review it. 

Meeting minutes for online teams meetings, it has been excellent though.

[bazera]

@Natasha Tori Maru Yeah, all that makes sense in the construction industry. 

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but will never replace my work while AI remains an LLM.

I think it will stay as LLM for a long time to come, so you should be safe.

I think there aren't many industries that LLMs affect that much, except for maybe software and couple others. And even there, it affects mostly positively for experienced people.

Aside to your work, do you use it for your personal life in some way? It's pretty useful when you are learning new things for example.

One interesting usage that I've found was the following kind of questions:

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"Based on everything you know about me, what are the 2-3 recurring patterns you see across my behavior — not just what I've identified myself, but what the data suggests?"

"Based on everything you know about me, where do you see the biggest gap between my self-understanding and my actual behavior?"

"Based on everything you know about me, what am I most likely avoiding right now that I haven't named yet?"

etc.

And since it has memory form all your past conversations, it might give you some answer that changes your perspective or gives you new insights.

Edited 23 hours ago by bazera

[bazera]

As I'm thinking more about it, I can't come up with another industry that might be affected with LLM's much, other than computer programming and maybe education system.

[LordFall]

A lot of graphic design and marketing jobs have already and will keep being lost due to AI being able to replicate template very effectively at this point.

This guy explains all his past work as put into an AI model and now his company could just produce stuff that's 80% as good instantly. That was a year ago so god knows how much more powerful the models have gotten by now. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

19 hours ago, bazera said:

@Natasha Tori Maru Yeah, all that makes sense in the construction industry. 

I think it will stay as LLM for a long time to come, so you should be safe.

I think there aren't many industries that LLMs affect that much, except for maybe software and couple others. And even there, it affects mostly positively for experienced people.

Aside to your work, do you use it for your personal life in some way? It's pretty useful when you are learning new things for example.

One interesting usage that I've found was the following kind of questions:

And since it has memory form all your past conversations, it might give you some answer that changes your perspective or gives you new insights.

He he he - yes I have used some prompts of a similar nature. 

AI's always prompt me to ask myself why I post on this forum, interestingly. For some reason they lacked the intuition to understand how I find growth from being provoked egoically. 

I use LLMs a lot. But I consider it to be like speaking to someone on this forum, or in real life; I simply cannot take what is said as truth. Merely provide an alternate view to consider.

For work I occasionally use it to navigate emotionally charged meetings; I am quick to call people out when they are wrong. This totally irritates and fucks up engineers and architects because to them I am just the lowly builder. Coupled with me being a tiny woman who presents as gentle and accommodating, this really makes people feel 'betrayed'; I am betraying their expections. They expect me to defer to them and not question. The questioning of methods of construction and WHY things are done how they are is taken as an offense. They want me to revert to capitulation and adhere to expections. They do not consider I might have input that can reduce costs and time. 

AI frequently gives me strategies to approach different people's egoic reactions to 1) calm them down 2) refocus them to the goal and 3) temper my own words so I am not so brutal with facts. 

Unfortunately you cannot avoid egos anywhere. And due to me requiring all discussions involving decisions being on writing, I have the great advantage of using AI and having the time to craft a strategy. You would be amazed at how sensitive others are to ONE word or phrase being altered. 

The emotional game behind work gets more results than just performing actions and expecting results. Once I started using LLMs more for this it made my work easier and I started to hit every KPI 😄

I pretty much don't need them so much anymore for this. Now I tend to query mechanisms and alternate methods I can use materials in a system.

Edited 4 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[bazera]

@Natasha Tori Maru

Nice, that's some creative way of using AI for sure, kudos 

2 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

For work I occasionally use it to navigate emotionally charged meetings; I am quick to call people out when they are wrong. This totally irritates and fucks up engineers and architects because to them I am just the lowly builder. Coupled with me being a tiny woman who presents as gentle and accommodating, this really makes people feel 'betrayed'; I am betraying their expections.

Oh really? That sucks. I assume your job involves lots and lots of communicating, and that comes with the burden of dealing with egos for sure.

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They expect me to defer to them and not question. The questioning of methods of construction and WHY things are done how they are is taken as an offense. They want me to revert to capitulation and adhere to expections. They do not consider I might have input that can reduce costs and time. 

I think people in general don't like to be questioned, but especially in corporate environments, where their salary is at stake, it's more of a threat survival-wise. But any leadership / managerial role will require WHY questions to get shit done.

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The emotional game behind work gets more results than just performing actions and expecting results.

Yeah, in other words soft skills, which many people suck at, because "soft skills" basically get developed when you introspect, self-reflect and all the good stuff we love here 😆 It doesn't come naturally, and that's why it's hard to relate to coworkers sometimes, at least for me.

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You would be amazed at how sensitive others are to ONE word or phrase being altered. 

Yeah, I think people are sensitive to punctuation as well, never mind words.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by bazera