“I am fed up with Raichand,” Swami told us the other day over coffee. Jigneshbhai and I ignored it because that was nothing new. But what he said after that caught our attention.
“So, I decided to get on to LinkedIn and find a new job,” he said. We looked up from our coffee mugs, because it had been a long time since Swami had changed his job.
And it has been even longer since he had done something on LinkedIn. A boss like Raichand had finally provided the trigger.
“It has changed a lot. Every time I put something into my profile, I get a prompt underneath which says ‘Rewrite with AI'”, he said. “Whether it is the summary of my profile or anything related to past experience or whatever, I can write it with AI,” he sounded excited.
Jigneshbhai looked up and remarked, “So does it write what you want to say?”
“Yeah, it does. But only longer. In many more words than I would have. Everything becomes more verbose,” he said and continued. “So I used this feature to update everything, and this is how my profile now looks,” Swami added, and gave us a printout he was carrying.
It had 4 or 5 pages, enlisting all his achievements over the two decades that he had spent working for Raichand and others before him.
“Wow, it is quite long,” Jigneshbhai remarked.
“This is just the profile. When you try to post something, you must see what the AI rewrite can do. It can churn out pages and pages of stuff,” Swami said. He was clearly excited about his new-found discoveries, but I could see much in the form of chagrin on our wise friend Jigneshbhai’s face.
“Does anybody read all this?” he asked. “Profiles and posts and what not. So much stuff generated by AI?”
Swami’s face lit up as if he was almost waiting for this question.
“Well, they also have a AI Summarizer. It takes a profile or whatever you feed it, and generates a summary in 250 words,” Swami reported, in all earnestness. “That makes it quite short to read.”
And while I was absorbing what was happening, Jigneshbhai broke into a laugh. “So, an AI generator to create a verbose profile and an AI summarizer to cut it down?” he remarked, looking quite amused. Swami hadn’t seen the funny side of it in all his enthusiasm.
But the wealthy old man in the sprawling bungalow who had been listening to our talk all this while made him see it. Swami and I broke into a smile when he walked towards us and said, “Looks like that is the long and short of AI !!!”
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