If you remember any line from the Dustin Hoffman movie “The Graduate” that has nothing to do with Mrs. Robinson, it’s probably the line where one of his father’s friends takes him aside and utters the word “plastics” as a field with great potential. If “The Graduate” had been made today, chances are “AI” would be the buzz word of choice that the older generation knows little about but assumes the younger generation will understand intimately. Much like plastic, AI seems to be everywhere or will be soon enough. The one difference, however, is that people fear being replaced by AI, rather than understanding how to command it as a tool to complement their career.
Kevin Cirilli is the founder of the website Meet the Future. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to describe why he thinks mastering AI will be the key to financial success for the members of tomorrow’s work force.
Cirilli told host Larry Mendte you can make a lot of money not just for knowing how to operate an AI system, but how to find business opportunities involving AI: “It’s not just being proficient in it. It’s also learning how to design the LLM’s [large language models], how to be able to teach others the LLM’s, and being able to recognize sort of what businesses are going to be needing in the next three to five years. We’ve all heard of SEO [search engine optimization], for example, but artificial intelligence models, especially if you’re a business, you’re going to want your news if you’re in the news industry or you’re going to want your data if you’re in the data industry picked up by the artificial intelligence bots, because that’s the new Google. So, thinking like that, that’s why these college kids are making so much money.”
Rather than fear or loathe AI, Cirilli recommends thinking of it in human terms in your company’s business structure: “People should be thinking of AI as like a senior vice president in their org chart… in the sense that the entry-level jobs are going to have to learn the AI system, the C-suite is going to have to understand how AI is going to be integrated into their organizational chart and the deliverables that they want their AI to perform and automate, and the employees are going to have to work seamlessly with it, but it all comes back to security and trust.”
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