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FLINT, Mich.— Mid-Michigan NOW’s Kyle Makin spoke with experts to see how artificial intelligence or AI is impacting the job market.
He spoke with Natalie Fitzsimmons, who works for PMC Staffing, and helps people in Michigan find their dream jobs.
Fitzsimmons says at work, she uses AI to sort through thousands of applications and it puts them in a organized list.
“It was pretty miraculous and it saved me hours worth of time,” Fitzsimmons said.
He also spoke with Dr. Timothy E. Bates, a professor from U of M Flint that specializes in technology, cyber security, and artificial intelligence.
“AI is a way for us to duplicate how human intelligence works and so in a nut shell its pretty much straight forward, its suppose to mimic what we mimic and analyze data while were doing processes or tasks,” Professor Bates said.
The professor says AI is not taking our jobs— but helping make our lives easier.
“Think about the calculator thirty to 40 years ago. We were told that calculators were going to make us dumb and take our jobs. Today, we are surrounded by calculators everywhere we go. They didn’t make us dumb, they make us move faster. We are seeing the same thing today with AI,” Professor Bates said.
He adds that even if AI is used in businesses, there is still a need for humans because the technology has it’s limitations.
There are many jobs it will not be able to do like being a judge, a cop, or a chef.
Bates adds that when it comes to hiring, there is a downside using AI.
“It’s not going to look outside the box and be like this individual is prime for this job. If you told AI they must have a engineering degree in bicycle riding, even though they wrote a book, published 10 thousand papers on the subject that you want to hire them in. If you told AI they had to have that degree it will look at it and say I’m not going to worry about it and go about my business,” Bates said.
However, Fitzsimmons says that you can actually use AI to help land that dream job.
“There are plenty of free scanners available online, where you can get a ranking or a percentage of how well your resume does in these systems and you can make adjustments., said Fitzsimmons.
The professor says that it’s our responsibility to make sure AI is used to help us— not replace us.