As AI skills become more relevant than ever, new research reveals that 55% of leaders say they are concerned about having enough people to fill their roles over the next year. This was discovered through a survey.
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The 2024 Microsoft Work Trends Index finds that while many professionals (45%) are worried about AI replacing their jobs, the majority of leaders (55%) are We are concerned about the lack of human resources.
71% [of leaders] They say they would rather hire a junior candidate with AI skills than an experienced candidate without them.
Microsoft Work Trend Index 2024
With talent shortages, there is a huge opportunity for those who can acquire AI skills, with 71% of company leaders preferring a junior candidate with AI skills to an experienced candidate without them. The answer is that they prefer people. Report.
AI has been a hot topic since OpenAI's ChatGPT was announced in November 2022, but large companies have been slow to integrate the technology and upskill their talent pools.
In the modern workplace, there is a gap between what seems necessary and what seems doable.
According to a Microsoft study, 79% of executives believe their companies need to implement AI to remain competitive, but pressure to generate immediate return on investment is causing The transition to AI is slow.
As a result, employees around the world are tackling problems themselves and learning how to use AI tools themselves. Upskilling AI at home can lead to increased competitiveness, but it also poses some challenges.
Experts say one of the biggest problems with upskilling at home with AI is that many people don't know how to do it safely and effectively.
To the naked eye, there are many “free” AI resources online, such as ChatGPT and other tools that use large-scale language models (LLMs), but experts believe that these tools are actually It says it's not free. LLM is an algorithm that can identify, summarize, translate, predict, and generate information using large datasets.
“Nothing in this world is free. Your data is the commodity you trade,” Liu said. “You should not use company data or your personal data [when using free online AI tools]. ”
Doing so could put sensitive personal and company data at risk. Part of upskilling with AI tools is learning how to do them safely and effectively.
According to Liew, the most important skill to learn today is to communicate effectively with existing AI-powered LLMs. Open AI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, and Google's Gemini employ his LLM.
You need to give your AI a lot of context. You need to treat your AI like a super hard-working intern who will make mistakes from time to time.
Lawrence Liu
AI Singapore Director of AI Innovation
“People use ChatGPT incorrectly because it looks exactly like Google Search,” Liew told CNBC Make It.
When using LLM, the key is to be specific with your prompts.
“You have to give AI a lot of context. Treat it like a super hard-working intern who makes mistakes every now and then…If you think about it, if you are [asking] If an intern does something, it's more than just a sentence. “The interns are probably wondering what to do,” he said.
According to Liu, the best way to improve your skills with AI tools at home is to use them. Through practice, you can learn how to give your LLM more descriptive prompts that will help produce the desired results.
“You still need to know [your domain] very well [but] The mundane part of looking at 20 files is now done by an AI system. Just imagine when you'll be able to go back. [work] At that kind of speed, that's the kind of transformation that can happen,” Liu said.
AI tools may still seem foreign, but by next year, Liew says, “it will be like knowing how to use the spell checker in Microsoft Word.”
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