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Jim Hawton, Chief Information Technology Officer, Bay Cities: Guiding your workforce into play to use it. You have to start using it to get good at it. You have to have
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their jobs. You’re still going to have people being in those positions because it’s helping them do their job. And with that being the case, if you can’t use the technology, that’s what’s putting you out of the job. D’Angelo: Jeff, do you have any comments or anything you want to say about utilization of AI? Is the design space also someplace where we’re seeing it come very quickly and actually effectively? Putt: As a previous art director, I find I use Midjourney, I use DALL-E, I use some of the text to image generative AI software programs to basically do what we used to do with Microsoft Teams. You’d stick thumbnails up on
the board, you’d criticize them, you would ideate, you would generate new thoughts, you would change the way you approach things. And I do the same thing. I tell AI what I want, then I tell it what I don’t like, and then I have it regenerate. So, yes, I think graphic design, production, art prep, and structural design will all be heavi-
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ly impacted in the near term with automation that will allow us to use fewer design resources and also supplement the design resources that we already have in our plans. You have an assistant that is infinitely patient. When you talk to people and say, “No, I don’t like it, go back and do it again,” that sets things off in the wrong direction. But an AI could care less. It just keeps generating ideas until you’re blue in the face, until you finally give up. Many jobs that are somewhat more labor-intensive will certainly be augmented, if not replaced by an intelligent assistant or helper. Hawton: Just in what we’ve seen in the automation that we’ve done and the time that we’ve helped our graphic team, for example, we have taken work that has taken them two hours to do and reduced it down to minutes with the tools that are out there. When their job is not complete in five minutes now, they’re on the phone saying some- thing’s not right, something’s broken, it’s not working. So that’s how that could really change your workforce, also. You can see how the people have changed just by having that tool.
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