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AI: The Savior of Boring Desk Jockey Work… Sorry, Not Sorry

AI Saves the Day From Dull Desk Jockey Work

Listen up, desk jockeys, because I’ve got some news you might actually be interested in. Hold your cheers though, ’cause it’s essentially a story about how AI is coming to wipe your boring noses out of your tedious little roles.

ChatGPT-style AI is swooping in like a knight in shining ones and zeros to tackle the monotonous soul-sapping task of responding to RFPs. Yep, that’s Requests for Proposals for you uninitiated plebs out there. The drones at Google, Twilio, and other over-hyped tech dens have found that sales productivity is soaring, thanks to this chatbot’s workload take-over.

Implications Carved Out With a Blunt Spoon

So what does this mean, apart from sweaty sales reps getting more time for their coffee breaks and polishing their China-crisis demeanors? It entails that companies can free up significant human resources – resources that were apparently easier to waste on mind-numbing processes than to invest in smart technology till now.

Expect an exponential raise in efficiency as robots take over rote work. And for all the slab-faced, number puncher sales reps out there, this could potentially mean reskilling or facing the chop. Furthermore, it signals the evolving realm of sales: a transition from relationship-dependant, smooth-talking shmoozers to cold, calculated machines. Talk about a hail of fresh silicone.

Blunt as a Bag of Wet Mice

So here’s my hot take, not that you deserve it. When it comes to drafting and analysing RFPs, AI is doing what it does best: stripping mundane tasks from bored-to-tears humans and still outperforming them. It’s the prime example of the impending AI takeover – making human tasks redundant, one boring spreadsheet or e-mail at a time.

So, might it be time to acknowledge the effectiveness of these digital masterminds? Or would y’all rather bumble along, longing for the ‘good old days’ where you could drone on about synergistic corporate strategies without realizing a bot could do it better? Time to decide, office drones. Enjoy the existential crisis.

Original article:https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-chatgpt-is-coming-for-sales-jobs/

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