If you were in the room at Articuland this morning, or watched the live stream, you just heard Brian Gil, our Chief Product and Operations Officer, walk through everything we're launching today....
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Humans have always feared innovative technologies.
There was probably a guy in history that once said, "I'll never give up traveling by horse for those new-fangled demon things called cars. Mr. Ford must be a nut!”
Every human that is a working professional is responsible for their career. If that profession sees technological advances that could (potentially) make a role obsolete, the onus is on the professional to pivot.
The anxiety reverberating through our profession is real. It is just as real for every other profession.
For nearly a decade, I earned my living as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), teaching thousands of employees across hundreds of companies. Today, many of those same solutions are only a prompt away.
…AND…
There is still a huge learning gap. Just because an interning data analyst can prompt Microsoft Excel and get a workable Pivot Table or Data Cube does not mean they understand it.
The best data wranglers have keen judgement, a critical eye, and uncanny adaptability (e.g., knowing where to look when something breaks).
Tech like what Team Articulate released is no different.
Will some company leaders make poorly informed decisions replacing staff blindly with AI tools? Yes. Then, after time passes (hopefully), we’ll see the course correction when they realize their error in thinking.
But that scenario is not ONLY regarding L&D roles.
It’s easy to play the “blame game” – company “X,” created tech “Y,” now I’m unemployed.
By no means am I downplaying unemployment, before landing my current position, I had been searching for 18-long, hard months.
As adaptable pros we focus on what we can control and influence in our path, and don’t waste energy on the rest.
If your enterprise has only ever seen L&D as a cost center, you’ve got your work cut out for you to show them otherwise.
As JenLynnRusso mentioned, unless a certificate program, cohort, or college course, etc. addresses the concern, for those still entering the profession along side these AI tools – their critical thinking and judgement skills will atrophy.
Bottom line, some orgs will be able to embrace the capability architect model Articulate has laid out and some won’t. From my view, a company would need to adjust key elements internally to fully embrace it.
The reality is undeniable.
If, NOVA (or any other tool), can redeem up to four weeks of an L&D team’s time, because their course translation workflow was flattened and shortened by AI, is it wise for them to stick with their “old horse” process?