How AI will impact our personal productivity and the jobs we do, with Cornell's Karan Girotra

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This is a podcast episode titled, How AI will impact our personal productivity and the jobs we do, with Cornell's Karan Girotra. The summary for this episode is: <p>Karan Girotra, Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management at Cornell University explains that recent advances in AI, particularly in processing language and visuals, will unlock new potential to automate cognitive tasks involving text, speech, images and video. This will greatly enhance individual productivity, as we can assign repetitive tasks to these AI agents and focus more time on higher-value work. This will have value for employees, and also create new business opportunities. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Your host:</strong> Daryl Pereira, IBM Senior Content Strategist</p><p><br></p><p>Key topics:</p><ul><li>The current AI era </li><li>An example: how chatbots have evolved</li><li>The levels of impact of AI will have </li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karang/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Connect with Karan Girotra on LinkedIn</a></p><p><a href="https://tech.cornell.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more about Cornell Tech</a></p><p><a href="https://ecornell.cornell.edu/corporate-programs/certificates/technology/digital-transformation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more about Karan’s Digital Transformation Certificate Program</a></p>
About Cornell Tech
00:12 MIN
Advice on finding your passion
00:18 MIN
The current state of AI
00:17 MIN
The example of chatbots
00:08 MIN
The four ways AI will impact us
00:01 MIN
The nature of AI
00:27 MIN
It will take some time to see the benefits of AI
00:32 MIN

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Karan Girotra, Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management at Cornell University explains that recent advances in AI, particularly in processing language and visuals, will unlock new potential to automate cognitive tasks involving text, speech, images and video. This will greatly enhance individual productivity, as we can assign repetitive tasks to these AI agents and focus more time on higher-value work. This will have value for employees, and also create new business opportunities.


Your host: Daryl Pereira, IBM Senior Content Strategist


Key topics:

  • The current AI era
  • An example: how chatbots have evolved
  • The levels of impact of AI will have


Connect with Karan Girotra on LinkedIn

Learn more about Cornell Tech

Learn more about Karan’s Digital Transformation Certificate Program

Today's Host

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Cristina McComic

|Content Designer, IBM
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Sam Smitte

|Data and AI Leader, IBM
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Amanda Downie

|Editorial Content Strategist, IBM
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Daryl Pereira

|Senior Content Strategist, IBM

Today's Guests

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Karan Girotra

|Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management, Cornell University