Generative AI and the future of knowledge work

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Thoughtworks recently established a new role — Chief AI Officer. Taking up the position is Mike Mason, a veteran of Thoughtworks with over 20 years at the company, in technology roles spanning developer to technology strategist and author (and occasional Technology Podcast host). Mike will help guide Thoughtworks AI strategy and ensure that we're equipped to support clients trying to leverage AI.

In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Mike talks with hosts Neal Ford and Prem Chandrasekaran about his new role and explains why it's important that the company has someone leading on AI. He also discusses the hype, opportunities and risks of generative AI that — high on everyone's agenda at the moment — and explores how it might change knowledge work in general and software engineering more specifically. Listen as Mike talks through some of his own experiments with ChatGPT and offers his perspective on its likely impact on jobs in the months and years to come.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast.
0:11.1	I'm one of your regular host, Neil Ford, and I'm joined today by another of our regular
0:15.8	guest, Prem. Good morning, Prim.
0:18.4	Thank you, Neil. It's wonderful to be here again.
0:21.4	And we are joined today by another voice that will be familiar to you because he's a regular
0:26.6	podcast host, but not today. He's sitting in the much more comfortable guest chair here
0:31.8	in our luxurious podcast studio. Mike Mason. So welcome, Mike.
0:39.0	Thanks, Neil.
0:39.7	Thanks, Prem.
0:40.3	Nice to be here.
0:41.0	I'm not sure the guest chair is actually more comfortable, but I guess we'll see.
0:45.6	We shall see.
0:46.7	It depends on how hot the seat gets, I suppose, as we start talking to you.
0:50.5	So we're here today to talk to Mike because he has been newly appointed or
0:57.9	anointed, I guess either one of those would work correctly, as the new chief AI officer at
1:04.6	ThoughtWorks. And we thought it would be an interesting conversation to have to talk about,
1:09.4	first of all, what does that mean? And more importantly,
1:12.4	why is that important for organizations to start thinking about that as a particular role? So we'll
1:19.2	let you kick it off, Mike. So what does it mean to be the chief AI officer of a consulting company?
1:25.3	Well, primarily it means that we think we need to strongly signal both internally within
1:31.6	the company and also to the outside world, how important we think the current AI revolution
1:37.9	is by putting someone in a sea level role in order to accelerate that.
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