Imagine your dream employee: He doesn’t take breaks, go on vacation, or request meetings.
DailyMail.com spoke to Ed Broussard, CEO of Tomoro.AI
In some industries, these types of workers could soon be hired.
In recent months, several companies have announced that they are creating AI agents or “synthetic employees.”
These digital workers could revolutionize the workplace as we know it: answering emails, organizing invoices, responding to customer service inquiries and managing a calendar, possibly eliminating administrative employees or expensive third-party technology.
DailyMail.com spoke to Ed Broussard, CEO of artificial intelligence company Tomoro.AI, who said the productivity boost these synthetic employees will offer will be so great that it will lead to a three-day work week.
Broussard, whose company works with Sam Altman’s OpenAI, told DailyMail.com that in the next two years we will see big advances with these types of workers.
Recently, Nvidia, an AI technology company, and Hippocratic AI, a medical AI company, announced that they would collaborate on ‘AI healthcare agents’.
In recent months, several companies have announced that they are creating AI agents or “synthetic employees.”
Companies hope their new AI nurses can address healthcare shortages around the world.
The Hippocratic researchers said the “nurses” will be trained “on a massive collection of proprietary data, including clinical care plans, healthcare regulatory documents, medical manuals, drug databases and other high-quality medical reasoning documents.” .
So far, AI healthcare workers have been tested by more than 1,000 nurses and 100 doctors in the United States.
Earlier this month, Cognition, an AI software company, was the first to create a freelance AI software engineer, which it called Devin.
Devin can build websites and code apps on his own in 20 minutes and is able to use the internet to teach himself skills.
The ‘engineer’ was tasked with going on Reddit to accept website creation requests and decided, on his own, to start collecting money, according to a Twitter thread posted by Wharton professor Ethan Mollick.
Devin is available for hire, although there is a long waiting list.
In addition to AI workers, companies are already using AI-enhanced applications, with 40 percent of HR functions in companies around the world using the automated technology, BBVA OpenMind. reported.
The AI workforce is just getting started.
Broussard told DailyMail.com that he believes the progress that will be made in the next two years will be more significant than all the advances seen in the industry in the previous 75, adding that by the end of the decade, all office jobs will be ‘transformed’ by AI agents.
And the technology CEO is not the only expert who has spoken out about the major changes that AI could bring.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, believes that artificial intelligence agents will replace Internet search and shopping sites like Amazon
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, predicted the use of AI in his book “The Road Ahead” almost three decades ago.
He now believes synthetic workers will have a huge impact on education and healthcare, saying they will be “the biggest revolution in computing since we went from typing commands to tapping icons.”
Gates believes that artificial intelligence agents will replace Internet search and shopping sites like Amazon.
And Broussard believes the productivity boost that digital employees will offer will be so great that it will lead to a three-day work week, adding that in the near future, technology will take over administrative and research tasks in several industries, including law, investment and marketing.
He told this website: ‘One of the agents we use most is a fact extraction agent. He specializes in reading a large number of documents and extracting all the facts and useful information in a format that other AI agents can easily read.
“This can be used for many different business applications: reviewing legal documents, investment analysis, customer research, even things like providing the right information to call center staff or negotiating prices for large contracts.”
Broussard believes that large organizations that do not start using “synthetic employees” will be destroyed in the next decade.
Broussard told DailyMail.com: ‘Organizations that quickly adopt, start experimenting and working on human and AI interaction will see massive gains in terms of productivity, effectiveness and wellbeing.
‘The stragglers will essentially disappear. Large organizations have a great advantage as they have many customers, private data and access to computing power, but the value of all three will erode and large companies that do not use their advantage will soon begin to decline and eventually disappear. , being replaced by new native AI companies.
He also predicted that AI agents will eliminate administration entirely: People won’t have to search for information or fill out forms or book hotels, but instead ask a digital assistant.
The CEO added: “We will see very different ways of working, new roles will emerge and organizations will shift work that normally limits human creative output to AI agents – this can free people up.”
‘As the impact a human being can have begins to become decoupled from the number of hours they spend working, we may need to reimagine how we think or work.
“It’s entirely feasible that we could move to a three-day work week or less, and the best performing employees are not the smartest and hardest working, but the people who are best at instructing AI agents.”
However, Broussard maintains that AI agents are not ready to replace entire roles.
He said: “We are still a long way from an AI agent replacing a nurse or a software developer entirely.” We’ve seen agents perform parts of those roles and do them well; For example, AI is often better than humans at identifying cancer cells from scans, but that’s not all of a radiologist’s job.
“Agents are much more likely to be built as capabilities, which can be packaged together for different purposes.”