An inside look
In this post I will be going over an insider’s first hand experience with how Artificial Intelligence is changing their workplace. For discretion purposes I will be referring to this interviewed individual as Jack.
To start, Jack is a private contractor in upstate New York who recently has started aiding his craftsman skills with Artificial Intelligence. I started my interview by asking Jack how he used to do his job when he first started. Jack told me “When I first started in this field I was basically an apprentice to my father, but later on I went on to get a degree in a trade school. This enabled me to open my own business…at this school I learned new methods of doing tasks I had been taught to do by hand…I also learned to use programs such as CAD that allowed me to make models of my projects instead of sketches, I could produce a 3D model.”. Jack went on in much detail on the CAD program and how it has helped him, telling multiple stories where it had saved days of work due to it’s precision. I followed up my first question asking him how Artificial Intelligence had influenced his business in a more economic sense, in which he replied, “I have never been more profitable than when I started using CAD, it saves me hours of time designing, and due to it’s extreme precision and my skills I acquired as a craftsman when I was young, I can cut any piece of wood to the perfect angle and length, I have reduced my waste at the worksite a ton, and none of it would have happened without these programs.”. At this point I Jack, who is a rather talkative person had answered most all of my questions without me having to ask them, and the official interview was over as he went into more stories.
Jack’s story as a small town contractor whose made a name for himself and proved himself better than his competitors has been largely due to the enablement of A.I in his company. Without it he would spend much more time at work, and would be wasting more materials at the job site than he would with just hand tools and his skills as a craftsman.
