Using AI as a quicker means to get jobs done is real and we better take it seriously. My interest in AI still hasn't grown beyond ChatGPT even though I am a millennial unlike Generation Z that are much quicker to embrace new technology, I am open to change and slow to completely embracing of new technology, I take it slowly and when I find a connection, I get hooked, and most probably don't look back.
There have been numerous AI tools following the launch of ChatGPT but I am still stuck with ChatGPT which I use almost daily.
Even at my level of being stuck at the level of ChatGPT, I am way ahead of most that don't know such a tool exists. Sometimes it is unfortunate that it is not what you know but who you know, where you are born, or the country in which you reside that impacts your level of success. And this can sometimes translate to life being unfair when luck is most of the time against you.
I can relate this to building DAS/IBS projects in South Africa with all my skills and yet being the one that oversaw the projects hands-on from start to finish I went home with less than 18% in payment.
I gained documentation skills during the process of managing those projects and it has been working to my advantage.
Telecoms site documents
Being able to compile an Asbuild document (site file) wasn't easy for me, I am a Technician all I know is to get my hands dirty with tools, working at heights, etc so sitting behind the laptop for an Asbuild document was a tough task for me.
With the projects on me that I have to deliver, I was stuck with learning how to get Asbuild documents done.
Recently I was contacted by a Telecom acquaintance from South Africa, he needed help with DAS Survey Template, which I have no idea how it is done.
I reached out to a friend that works with Huawei, I knew he deals with documents so he told me to have it done in Excel, he offered to send me a sample but was too busy, so I consulted ChatGPT.
Above was my prompt and I was amazed at what ChatGPT came up with. It gave me 14 points which I entered into an Excel spreadsheet, I added and removed a few words to match what I want.
In less than 2 hours I was done helping my friend in South Africa and had the template emailed to him.
I was amazed at how ChatGPT gave me the Telecoms terminologies, it would have taken a whole day to do this on my own, thinking about what is to be included in a DAS survey template.
AI is here, whether we see it as a threat to jobs or not, a better approach to it will be to embrace it and apply it to where we see fit for whatever kind of job we do.
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