survey: 78 percent “would work with an a.i. manager if it meant a more balanced workload.”
by rick telberg
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there’s a brave new world rising, a world juiced up on artificial intelligence.
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what’s it going to be like? what will a.i. be capable of? is it the dawn of a glorious new age of automation or a cat-5 storm cloud on the horizon?
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 has some answers, and you might not like them.
nobody knows. yet everybody needs to know.
cpas certainly need to know. their business is, to a large extent, data. it’s also the mechanics of technology, the tactics of marketing, the holistic strategy of business, and the fuzzy-wuzzy interactions known as communication. all of these areas will be impacted by a.i.—and nobody knows how.
in the center stand the cpa and the crew of a cpa firm, applying personal intelligence to the application of its artificial cousin. those with p.i. will have a powerful new tool that grows more powerful—and more difficult to use—not just every day but overnight. they will no longer be able to work in discrete silos with tax people over here, marketers over there, human resources down the hall, techies offsite somewhere. isolated p.i.s are not going to make efficient use of a.i.
pricewaterhousecoopers has been so bold as to roll out some predictions about the brave, new a.i. world. the predictions are necessarily vague and general, but they’re a clear call to start planning.
one big warning is that a.i. will impact employers before it impacts employment. employers are going to have quickly figure out—and continuously figure out—how to reconceive and restructure their business, then reorganize, reorient, and retrain their people.
a.i. comes to earth
michael baccala, pwc’s assurance innovation leader, says that 2018 is the year that a.i. “comes to earth” and tech investments start to really yield results.
“companies know that the a.i. technology is there, but have had a hard time figuring out how they could benefit from it,” baccala said in an interview with bloomberg tax. “they sometimes struggle to come up with the questions they are trying to answer. but this year, companies are getting more specific about what they are trying to accomplish and are starting to look at different areas inside their organization where a.i. can be used.”
pwc predicts the existence of centaurs—humans collaborating with machines, p.i. empowered with a.i. centaurs will be the ones who can best fashion data into the kinds of decisions that a.i. will not be able to make but will make possible.
a pwc survey found that 78 percent of business executives “would work with an a.i. manager if it meant a more balanced workload”—yes, that elusive work-a-day dream of every cpa who thinks the next computer upgrade will make finally everything so easy.
but can a.i. replace management? maybe some aspects of management. more certainly, a.i. is going to give management all the more to think about, all the more data to run through the process of managerial judgment.
in fact, even though a.i. is just beginning to arrive, it’s already giving cpas and firm managers a lot to think about.
but they aren’t going to find a.i. answers until they come up with the right p.i. questions.