You'll Soon Manage a Team of AI Agents, Says Microsoft's Work Trend Report (zdnet.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/214248/youll-soon-manage-a-team-of-ai-agents-says-microsofts-work-trend-report
- Source link: https://www.zdnet.com/article/youll-soon-manage-a-team-of-ai-agents-says-microsofts-work-trend-report/
> Microsoft's [2]latest research identifies a new type of organization known as the Frontier Firm, where on-demand intelligence requirements are [3]managed by hybrid teams of AI agents and humans . The report identified real productivity gains from implementing AI into organizations, with one of the biggest being filling the capacity gap -- as many as 80% of the global workforce, both employees and leaders, report having too much work to do, but not enough time or energy to do it. ... According to the report, business leaders need to separate knowledge workers from knowledge work, acknowledging that humans who can complete higher-level tasks, such as creativity and judgment, should not be stuck answering emails. Rather, in the same way working professionals say they send emails or create pivot tables, soon they will be able to say they create and manage agents -- and Frontier Firms are showing the potential possibilities of this approach. ... "Everyone will need to manage agents," said Cambron. "I think it's exciting to me to think that, you know, with agents, every early-career person will be able to experience management from day one, from their first job."
[1] https://slashdot.org/~ZipNada
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/
[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/youll-soon-manage-a-team-of-ai-agents-says-microsofts-work-trend-report/
If your managing a team of AI bots (Score:2)
Who needs you!
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Microsoft has to sell their stuff.
And.... human employees are great, and they are human.
One fucking hallucination, and there's a delete key waiting.
Re: If your managing a team of AI bots (Score:1)
You need AI to teach you the difference between your and you're?
Managers (Score:4, Insightful)
Good Lord.....so a completely new person that doesn't know jack shit about the workplace or their new career, is going to be 'managing'.
I didn't even need to read the rest of the AI drivel. That was enough right there to show was a dumbass idea this is.
When it comes to AI replacement! (Score:2)
Management is the prime target! All suit, all ROI!
Will the AI agents be working from home? (Score:2)
Or will they have to come into the office like the "manager"?
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They'll remain in the data center and get free lunch perks like "electricity"!
I for one welcome our TRON overlords!
Only chumps manage a team of AI agents (Score:2)
See, for me I manage a team of beautiful gynoids, all fully functional, programmed to service my every need. They then magage an army of androids, each of which has their own army of autonomous AI agents. Sure, each gynoid, android, and autonomous AI agent requires a 50,000 sqm datacenter and enough electricity to power 97,234 homes, but it's totally worth it. Sure, sometimes the gynoids break my arms, and the autonomous AI agents still don't know how many thumbs a human hand has, and they're very rarely fa
"Buzzwords" isn't strong enough (Score:2)
We're now up to words so meaningless customers can't even guess what they're supposed to be. What's an "AI Agent' Mark from Marketing, do you have an engineer that can explain? Can you explain? Are the "AI Agents" in the room with us?
You first .. (Score:2)
.. Microsoft.
It explains so much. (Score:2)
Someone who says "humans who can complete higher-level tasks, such as creativity and judgment, should not be stuck answering emails" is definitely someone you'd want to have to communicate with.
From the unfortunate occasions when I've been forced to try to talk to them; I'm pretty sure that Redmond has already culled anyone meeting this description from public-facing communication.
If you had 200 interns (Score:2)
I'm a software developer. Part of AI is like if I had 200 interns working for me -- some of them smarter than me and already more knowledgeable about some areas, some of them not, none of them familiar with my team's codebase. There are real cases where I could get those 200 interns to do real useful work and would want to! e.g. if I create a very detailed playbook of how to make certain code improvements, ones that wouldn't be worth my time to do myself one-by-one, but if I had 200 interns and an automated
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I think it's more than just writing technical scripts.
AI agents are dangerous in human society because 1) they are not rational and cannot follow instructions but only fill in the blanks statistically, and 2) they are immune to punishment for misconduct and legal responsibility.
The biggest benefit of having a human "manage" a team of "AI agents" is that the human is legally responsible for the "team".
This is a tried and true solution to issue 2) above: Historically, human beings have managed teams of
Get an agent manager (Score:2)
Why not create an agent to manage your other agents?
"...experience management from day one" (Score:2)
> will be able to experience management from day one
Munch's TheScream.jpg
Having managed twice before, I'd rather stick red hot pokers in my eyes.
I fear for the future worker. Sounds worse than The Matrix and Office Space combined.
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"Managing" AI agents would be nothing like managing a team of humans. They're pulling out all the stops to try to pump the AI dream because they have so much money invested into it at this point.
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> "Managing" AI agents would be nothing like managing a team of humans. They're pulling out all the stops to try to pump the AI dream because they have so much money invested into it at this point.
I keep say, this AI shit is alot like crypto, the only people who want it are the people with a stake in profiting from it. It's a solution to a problem that does not exist.
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> I keep say, this AI shit is alot like crypto, the only people who want it are the people with a stake in profiting from it.
Isn't that true of pretty much everything?
"Profit" isn't always measured in dollars and cents. For example, it can also be defined in terms of pleasure, or enjoyment. If you engage in some activity, any activity, and you like doing so, you're making a profit (measured in terms of happiness). If you don't like that activity, you're enduring a loss (of your time and energy, which could be spent on something you enjoy).
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You beat me to it - I have that same quote in my clipboard just ready to paste into a comment.
My take was to point out the blindness, narcissism, and sheer fucking arrogance of the belief that everyone aspires to be a manager. Not to mention the implication that anyone who's not some kind of manager is socially and/or intellectually inferior.
Am I reading too much into that "exciting to experience management" line? Maybe, but I doubt it.
What a lie. (Score:2)
"Having too much work and not enough time to do it" is not some happenstance artifact of our current state of technology, and it absolutely will not be "solved" by having teams of AI agents.
This state is deliberately manufactured by leadership, who deliberately assign deadlines that are unreasonably short. This is their way of getting the most out of their employees. Overwork them! Any employee who has plenty of time to get all their work done obviously has too little work to do, so assign more. DUH!
So,