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Staying Relevant as a Business Analyst: Where Humans Outperform AI
Durable skills and the future of human workers
It’s amazing but not surprising how much we, humans, are interested in gadgets that make our lives easier. Any contraption that reduces the workload must be valuable. A technology that promises to take tedious work away is an instant success. The AI hype of the last few years is a great testament to this.
Whenever I open LinkedIn, I cannot escape endless headlines about how everybody uses AI to be more productive and beat everyone else in the game. If you don’t use AI, you are hopelessly behind. ChatGPT made me smarter than I was (or appear smarter, anyway).
How much of this hype is justified? Sure, chatbots can summarize information for you and analyze text. They can suggest diagram elements and list typical use cases. Yes, it’s a new tool we can use just like we used to do web searches before and look through documentation on the Intranet before then.
Has using AI made anyone smarter yet? A sharper analyst? Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, chatbots are not creative geniuses. They can regurgitate content and extract repeatable patterns from large amounts of data at breathtaking speeds, certainly exceeding human capabilities.
