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As someone who keeps an eye on evolving technology, James Aden\u2019s perspective could be summarized this way: Yesterday\u2019s unimaginable possibility is today\u2019s basic necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n

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James Aden, CGI<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cImagine the perspective of someone alive in the 1950s. If you told them that one day, there would be a global information network that you could connect to and one of the things you could do would be talk to a computer program that would ask you questions in your chosen language and help you do your taxes, that would\u2019ve sounded insane to them,\u201d said Aden, a Chattanooga-based vice president with Canada\u2019s CGI<\/a> (Consultants to Government and Industry Incorporated) global computer consulting and software company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He discussed the increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence into familiar computer and software applications on CH-AI Brews, <\/em>the student-led podcast from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we get to the information age and the age of computing, now instead of just automating onorous physical tasks, we can start to automate mental tasks, as well. Tax preparation is a terrific example of that,\u201d Aden said, referring to do-it-yourself tax prep software. \u201cThen you get into machine learning and that allows a machine to look at a really broad spectrum of different data, find connections between it and articulate some sort of model for how to view it and think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aden puts AI capabilities into five groups: generation, reduction, transformation, knowledge access and emergent behaviors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGeneration is exactly what it sounds like. It\u2019s what generative AI is named for, and it\u2019s the main thing you probably think about when you think about generative AI. Generation is about creating something unique based on the synthesis of all the information that the algorithm has been fed in the past. The difference with (generation and) reduction is that you\u2019re asking it to synthesize a smaller version of whatever you gave it,\u201d Aden said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTransformation is in between those two. Imagine you gave a large language model a speech and you asked it to rewrite the speech, and it rewrites your speech so it\u2019s essentially the same content, but it\u2019s using different words, cadences and ways of speaking. Knowledge access is sort of a \u2018subclass\u2019 of reduction. You have some sort of knowledge base, and you give that to the generative AI model and are able to ask questions about the content you gave it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmergent behaviors are things that we didn\u2019t design or explicitly ask the AI to do, but in the course of doing what we did ask it to do, it\u2019s doing something else or doing it in a way that we didn\u2019t expect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aden said he believes knowledge access is the most dominant capability of AI, but sought to ease worries by saying, \u201cThere\u2019s a concept called \u2018responsible AI,\u2019 because when you have something like this, and you begin to think of it as intelligent, and you give it too much control, it can run amok.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also described what he calls \u2018human in the loop\u2019 versions of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where you ask the generative AI to do something, and it gives you an output. You review the output and decide if this is something you were looking for,\u201d Aden said. \u201cThere\u2019s also \u2018human on the loop\u2019 where you have a human observing the outputs, and if the human were to step away, the process continues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen you have the human completely out of the loop, and there are very few cases that are suitable for that scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked his perspective on the impact of AI on the types and availability of jobs, he suggested a future with jobs more likely to change than be eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n

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James Aden with CH-AI Brews Guest Host Taryn Brooks.<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cJobs will become more competitive, but there is no class of jobs that is completely going away in the way you might have seen with past automation technologies, Aden said.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His advice on maintaining your individual value in a technology-modified job market?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look for a field \u201cthat is historically understaffed, where it is difficult to find enough talent to fill all the jobs that exist,\u201d he said. \u201cThose areas would be things like healthcare.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s optimistic about the ultimate impact of AI in both the workplace and the job market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis technology makes people more effective at their job,\u201d Aden said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to increase their capabilities and allow them to do more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2009 to 2017, Aden was director of technology services with CTS, a privately held, regional IT consulting firm\u00a0in Chattanooga. He joined CTI in 2017 as its director of consulting and was named a vice president in 2022. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and a master’s degree in business administration from UTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The podcast CHAI Brews: Infusing Conversations About AI<\/em> explores the impact of AI on university classrooms and campuses; the career fields students are pursuing and the workplaces that await them; the city of Chattanooga, the state of Tennessee and the people who live there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts of the podcast air on Mondays on WUTC-FM 88.1 and can be found online at wutc.org<\/a>. CH-AI Brews is also available on Spotify<\/a> and Apple podcasts<\/a>. Listen to the entire James Aden interview HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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