Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the market

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the market.

The concept actually started back in the 1700’s but reality of “human alternatives” as I call it, started to materialise in the 1940s with the Enigma machine. It still fascinates me today that I have drove over a bridge named after Alan Turing many a times not appreciated quite the revolutionary seed that had been planted.

In the short space of time, AI is now being integrated into every aspect of our lives. Sometimes without even realising and to the point now, many may feel “how have we lived without Alexa?” I mean it could have been “Samantha” not quite the same ring.

Schools are already integrating AI into their lesson plans and some even have a separate subject on this. So many in academics are now using AI to write assignments and even PhD’s. Owning the work and knowledge now is not going to be quite the same. There are no break systems to the fast escalating technology. To not jump on to the Titanic makes no sense!

Why do I name it the Titanic. Titanic is my all time favourite movie! Cheesy, romantic, historical, I mean what’s not to like about it. It was one of the most technologically advanced Luxury cruises ever built to that date. Described as “unsinkable” yet, still ironically sank on its first and only sail. Despite knowing this, had I have been alive at that time and had the opportunity to get on board the grandest ship around, oh I would have jumped at the chance because it’s destiny was not known, but the potential it had was immense.

AI is exactly that. A beautiful crafted piece of intelligence with so much potential.

My childhood memories will just be stories for my grandchildren. I mean gone are the days where learning how to use formulas on spreadsheets was an actual IT lesson! Even better, having one computer in the whole school. You would be lucky to even have use of it at least once in the academic year (yes I lived those days…oh and the Amstrad which took an hour and half to start up ‍♀️).

Have our children even heard about floppy disks and the heartbreak when “the one” got corrupted and your whole year’s work towards the uni assignment got lost in a blink of an eye. It sadly happened to me. Thankfully I loved the good old fashioned pen and paper!

Technology in our era has progressed that much that it is important to learn, adapt and integrate with the times.

As an owner of a boutique law firm ironically dealing predominantly with the elderly and vulnerable, innovation is still key to our survival amongst the diversification that the legal profession brings. Standing out and competing becomes that much more harder. With almost fifty percent of law firm being made up of sole practitioner, I wonder how many have AI on their minds?

Lets be honest, I have only “actively” joined Linkedin in the last two months. Learning new technologies in what is already a time demanding profession requires a significant level of risk and innovation. The risk being time at the expense of chargeable hours. Innovation means breaking the norms and Still, technological advancement is essential.

In the past two months of being active on LinkedIn I have learnt the following:

• AI was not my best friend this week.

Embarrassing mistake of not checking lead me to hibernate under my blanket for a few days waiting for an apocalypse to happen before I made an appearance. Oh it was real.

However a few days later, thankfully as a microscopic fish in the ocean, my post, I hope has been long forgotten…(till I just daftly brought it up of course).

It was interesting however, to see the comments. Only two challenged the actual facts of my post. The rest took it to be correct. Some ignored and were too interested in my car crash ‍♀️ The once in a lifetime occurrence, yet a now regular reminder from my two girls, who fail to appreciate that they are never late for school.

I also learned that AI was actually not as good as me . The facts were not current and it failed to what I call “humanise” my post. I later, after my embarrassment realised that ChatGPT was only limited to date before September 2021. The announcement stating that ChapGPT can browse the internet to provide up to date information, clearly did not work!

I gloated at the sheer failure on integrating humour. It was robotic humour in server loads! I mean Johnny five is my all time idol robot. He would have been embarrassed.

• linked in posts

I have seen a lot, I mean a lot of linked in posts integrating AI… I bet I could tell quite easily what is real and what isn’t. Is that a bad thing? I would not say so. No criticism to those who rely quite heavily on the virtual friend.

• Integration in work practices

For me. Where does AI fit.

I have great love for AI. I like the fact that there is so much potential for it to think like me. AI is very good and being systematic, consistent and write well.

Already, I am integrating the use within the office starting small. I am waiting for the Microsoft co pilot and seeing how that begins to revolutionise the way of working. More importantly, the potential for law firms big and small.

Nothing changes humanising law. However, I see no reason why AI and I cannot be friends.

For me, AI is like a new bike without breaks on a slope. Learning to ride this bike will no doubt have some bruises. I fell off my AI bike this week. But, I got back on.