{"id":1917,"date":"2025-08-12T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:27:21","slug":"using-ai-at-work-hype-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2025\/08\/12\/using-ai-at-work-hype-vs-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI at work: Hype vs. reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/08\/11\/upshot\/ai-jobs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.KvBo.6n80qQJfnhti&amp;smid=url-share\">A recent New York Times story<\/a> offers insights.<\/p>\n<p>Using LLMs as a &#8220;second pair of eyes&#8221; or as a fallible assistant seems to work well. Automation also works effectively when the instructions are clear and the objectives are defined unambiguously. In both cases, human agency remains central.<\/p>\n<p>Use case #15 in the article, &#8220;Review medical literature,&#8221; reminded me of a study I shared earlier (<a href=\"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2025\/06\/06\/how-do-llms-report-scientific-text\">How do LLMs report scientific text?<\/a>). The study showed that LLMs systematically exaggerate claims they found in the original text. The user in this case is a medical imaging scientist and is aware of the danger. When a tool isn&#8217;t foolproof, the user&#8217;s expertise and awareness make all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>The high-demand use cases are quickly scaling into independent businesses with more standardized output, often with LLMs as the core wrapper. I suspect some are marketed as &#8220;magic,&#8221; and to resist that hype, users will need a combination of expertise and awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent New York Times story offers insights. Using LLMs as a &#8220;second pair of eyes&#8221; or as a fallible assistant seems to work well. Automation also works effectively when the instructions are clear and the objectives are defined unambiguously. In both cases, human agency remains central. Use case #15 in the article, &#8220;Review medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}