Don’t Worry Feds. AI isn’t going to take your job anytime soon.
I work for VA and have been experimenting with our MS Copilot AI to basically develop a large document (it’s not due for awhile so I have time to experiment). I fed it the data it needed to analyze, spreadsheets, ppt docs, word docs. Told it to synthesize the data and write a report for me based on the criteria that needed to be in the report, word length etc. I’ve been working with AI on this now for 3 days and still have yet to get any report. Restrictions of how many files I can upload at a time, restrictions of how many times I can communicate with it, restrictions on what it can produce and terrible latency. I thought AI was supposed to be instantaneous? It told me it would take 60mins to create the document and after two hours it still wasn’t done. I ran out of responses and had to start all over again multiple times and reload the files. Now sitting by here waiting for it while I do other work. I can’t imagine asking this to get us to Mars or solve global warming! lol. I just asked it to develop a document.
Point being that maybe AI will replace us in years to come and that we will have AI overlords. But not today my fellow Feds, esp using VA Copilot. I could have/probably will just write the document myself. I could have had most of it done by now.