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>
Key Takeaways
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
DESCRIPTION
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 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
Karan Girotra is a Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Johnson School at Cornell University. Karan collaborates with companies building new business models in the areas of urban living, smart transportation and e-commerce, helping them build rigorous research based solutions.
Karan’s research team has been recognized by multiple awards including the prestigious Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award and multiple best paper awards. He has also won teaching awards for his teaching on entrepreneurship and new business models and was featured in the Poets and Quant’s Best 40 under 40 business professors lists.
Learn more about Karan