This week, a new data center was announced here in Trumbull County, Ohio, to support AI technology’s massive computing needs. This is at a time when many people in the area still haven’t developed a solid feel for how AI will deploy in their lives – on their personal phones, in their jobs, or in the companies they do business with.
For my part, I’m a bit of an early adopter. I’ve used form-filling algorithms to assist in work, if-then automation flows and enough other automated tasks that the thought of turning over work product to the black box of our new computer overlords and LLMs doesn’t phase me much. One of my MBA classes at Baldwin Wallace specifically deals with the use of AI and how it can make data analysis and cleaner, and perhaps help you find some relationships in your visualizations that you might have missed when you skipped a lecture in your Prescriptive Analysis classes to go to a Guardians game due to illness.
I know that there are some things AI just can’t do – write accurately, for example, and return the correct responses for exams that require advanced analysis and problem solving. The computers also tend to hallucinate, wildly – I once asked for a summary of an interview I’d done on a business in Amish country and was treated to a wild flight of fancy on the importance of Veterans in society.
But I have been coaching my Microsoft CoPilot to summarize my notes and interviews in more-or-less the way I like it and AI transcription services are way, way faster than I will ever be at producing transcripts from audio and video.
The best thing AI can do is allow people to do people work and computers to do computer work. That’s one reason I was so excited to tackle this story for Transport Topics – on the different ways Insurance companies are deploying AI in their work. Not to give away the theme, but there’s definitely a contiuum.
How is AI deploying in your world? I’d love to hear it. Drop me a line at amanda@rustbeltwriters.com
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