AI's Impact on Work:
Performance Boost: Studies, including a large-scale trial by Boston Consulting Group, show AI, specifically GPT-4, significantly enhances task speed, quality, and volume across various sectors, with improvements ranging from 20%-80%.
Leveling Effect: AI disproportionately aids lower performers, acting as a performance leveler. However, this might evolve as AIs improve.
Jagged Frontier: AI excels unpredictably across tasks, necessitating hands-on experimentation to understand its capabilities, which are constantly expanding.
Despite these benefits, many companies are slow to adopt AI, risking falling behind. However, some proactive leaders are mandating AI use, transforming their organizations dramatically. The adoption of AI hints at substantial shifts in job nature and market, with mixed implications for employment but potentially higher job satisfaction due to the automation of mundane tasks.
Source: AI is Already Impacting Work. Ethan Mollick