Thank you to all who joined this OA Community Call as we unpacked how open talent platforms and artificial intelligence tools, like ChatGPT, are going to continue to evolve and forever transform the way work gets done. Generative AI has the potential to affect many individuals and organizations. In order to stay ahead of these changes and prepare for the future, it’s important for communities, like ours, to come together and discuss these topics. We are all going to have to adapt and innovate to remain competitive in our industries.
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On this call we brought together several experts to share ideas and insights, and spark an open conversation about the role of AI in the open talent economy.
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Chat Transcript:
00:06:07 Carin-Isabel Knoop: hello everyone~so glad to be able to join today!
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00:06:28 Carin-Isabel Knoop: future or work ist just like the past ‘-)
00:07:03 alexwente: Just signed up!
00:09:15 Carin-Isabel Knoop: everyone wants a piece of the freelance economy!
00:09:27 Bondili, Balaji: Haha!
00:16:56 Eryn Peters: sorry to Suzette’s otter AI that just listened to me eat an orange for 10 minutes hahaha
00:17:45 Lucas Meyers: New South Park is must Watch re personal branding
00:17:58 Antonio Sadarić: Here is the article on Narcissism and personal branding that Carin mentioned, we’d love to hear your impressions
00:18:16 Antonio Sadarić: part 2 coming soon!
00:18:22 Carin-Isabel Knoop: Reacted to “Here is the article …” with 👍
00:18:29 Brad Z.: I’m new
00:18:46 Denise Brouder – SWAY: Reacted to “Here is the article …” with 👍
00:18:56 Carin-Isabel Knoop: welcome josh!
00:19:10 Open Assembly: welcome Josh!
00:19:52 Open Assembly: welcome Brad!
00:20:05 Antonio Sadarić: Reacted to “Here is the article …” with 👏
00:20:08 Brad Z.: Reacted to “welcome Brad!” with 👍
00:20:28 Eryn Peters: freelance-focus.com/subscribe
00:20:53 Carin-Isabel Knoop: please reach out to talk personal branding and freelancing – the stress of being the product — or put ideas in chat Carin Knoop (cknoop@hbs.edu); Antonio Sadarić <antonio.sadaric1@gmail.com>
00:21:00 Antonio Sadarić: Reacted to “please reach out to …” with 👏
00:21:23 Antonio Sadarić: also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoniosadaric1/
00:21:34 Eryn Peters: thank you 🙂
00:23:01 Carin-Isabel Knoop: Reacted to “also on LinkedIn: ht…” with 👍
00:23:06 Marcus: Hi everyone I’m new here! Nice to meet you all! I’m Kawa. (Marcuskawamura.com)
00:24:43 Brad Z.: I’m in a cafe so I might not speak much. Just fyi. Thanks.
00:25:18 niels: Nice to meet you all. New here too
00:25:52 Caroline Ayoub – Khibraty Platform: Yes yes would like to have it the discount code, thanks
00:26:02 Lorraine Charles, Na’amal: Hi everyone, I am also new here. I am Lorraine Charles, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Na’amal, which helps refugees work remotely (mostly as freelancers) www.naamal.org
00:26:03 Link: Hi everyone, if you run a platform and are looking at building capacity and creating a more inclusive culture among your freelancers, please reach out! https://linkingdreams.global/ my name is Link- Advocacy Advisor to the OA community https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkdreams/
00:26:29 Open Assembly: Flexible Workforce Summit Tickets: Discount code: OPENASSEMBLY2023
00:28:06 Open Assembly: Open Talent and Chat GPT:
00:29:28 David Messinger: GitHub stats say that developers using copilot generates 40% more lines of code in the same time as developers without copilot
00:29:58 Open Assembly: Balaji Bondili
00:34:22 Carin-Isabel Knoop: interesting people vs deliverable distinction — but the people need to eat…
00:34:50 Antonio Sadarić: Reacted to “interesting people v…” with 👏
00:37:15 Eryn Peters: +1 – I wonder if we’ll see more outcome or value-based pricing rather than time and materials adjusted for effort.
00:37:58 Open Assembly: Josh Friedman
00:38:18 John Healy: BIG believer that value based pricing is a critical next step….but one large enterprises will struggle to adopt!
00:38:24 Open Assembly: SkillsDB
00:38:41 Bondili, Balaji: @carrin – yes, but freelancing is still an economic transaction. And, we have to support these freelancers on how to think about being successful in the new world.
00:39:33 Link: I heard Balaji and others talk about how platforms are competing with one another. Has anyone seen any models yet where platforms are partnering with other platforms to address client needs? Mutually beneficial partnerships where each others growth is beneficial to one another?
00:39:52 Lucas Meyers: The tension between value based and Agile development feel daunting.
00:40:43 Carin-Isabel Knoop: Reacted to “@carrin – yes, but f…” with 👍
00:40:49 Melisa Liberman: Reacted to “@carrin – yes, but f…” with 👍
00:41:14 Caroline Ayoub – Khibraty Platform: Hi Link, we at Khibraty don’t believe that platforms are here to compete, rather we complete each other’s work, we’ve been partnering with other 5 platforms for freelance consultants that we had the projects for but we didn’t have them in our pool of experts
00:41:50 Link: Found this article to be interesting based on this topic https://www.conference-board.org/topics/next-generation-HR/skills-based-to-talent-development
00:42:12 Caroline Ayoub – Khibraty Platform: Reacted to “Found this article t…” with 👍🏽
00:43:44 Open Assembly: Tom O’Malley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomomalley/
Current: https://currnt.com/
00:43:45 Jon Younger: John Boudreau at USC has also written smart stuff about the shift from role to task
00:44:07 Una Herlihy: Are there some skills are are more ‘at risk’ of being decimated by Generative AI more than others and how quickly is this likely to happen?
00:47:03 Bondili, Balaji: @Jon Younger – That role to task distinction is critical. Skills are role centric and not outcome centric.
00:47:52 Bondili, Balaji: Why aren’t the experts, AI?
00:50:41 Matt Dowling: We recently hosted a panel discussion on AI and freelancing. The big takeaway aligns with Tom’s central point – some see it as a threat, others as a tool. We’re already seeing new professions emerge such as AI Artists and Hard Editors using AI as a tool.
00:52:57 Jon Younger: I asked ChatGPT to summarize my last 3 articles, and it did a very good job 🧐
00:53:22 John Healy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reid-hoffman-and-chatgpt-talking-ai-with-ai/id1089013200?i=1000594061462
00:53:28 Carin-Isabel Knoop: AI can be like a good journalist and creative cousin or drunk bar mate but the people who will have real value are the people who can curate and realize its limits — very ethnocentric for now and removes from scientific materials and all that is firewalled for now
00:53:35 Antonio Sadarić: Reacted to “AI can be like a goo…” with ❤️
00:54:39 Carin-Isabel Knoop: the prompt engineers and editors will be valuable — but also someone who actually KNOWS instead of just talking about stuff…we have played with it for case writing at HBS and it makes a lot of mistakes…
00:54:47 Link: I think about the business case for generative AI and GPT and it helps drive better outcomes; however, I can’t help but think about the impact on freelancer mental health because of the process becoming so automated that it lacks the human connection element. It becomes more about automated language rather than talent and value provided by a the person doing the work
00:54:52 Bondili, Balaji: I would bet that 90% of expert perspective Is rehashing what already in the public domain. That 10% is critical to new knowledge, but easier and more democratized access to that 90% make the economics of knowledge access is equally important. It is what google did to the internet and chatgpt is doing to knowledge
00:55:23 Link: great points @Carin
00:55:52 Bondili, Balaji: I think the old story of new tech will create new jobs is questionable.
00:57:11 Lucas Meyers: That’s an almost direct quote from “thank you for being late” which is a superb read
00:57:38 Brad Z.: We should probably leave big consulting firms out of the conversation. Most want to become the ‘experts’. This just isn’t viable.
00:57:41 Link: The future is rural….
00:57:58 Brad Z.: Reacted to “The future is rural….” with 👍
00:58:02 Lucas Meyers: Reacted to “The future is rural.…” with 👍
00:58:10 Brad Z.: Replying to “The future is rural….”
Expand 😊 🙂
00:58:18 Link: rural= untapped supply- room for innovation, room for upskilling etc
00:58:26 Carin-Isabel Knoop: Reacted to “rural= untapped supp…” with 👍
00:58:37 Bondili, Balaji: Reacted to “The future is rural….” with 👍
00:58:52 Bradley Cooper (SASR Workforce Solutions): Reacted to “rural= untapped supp…” with 👍
00:59:12 Eryn Peters: freelance-focus.com/subscribe for that newsletter! 😄
00:59:36 Jon Younger: Wonderful session. Thanks John, thanks all. And thanks Eryn: freelance-focus.com/subscribe
01:00:01 Jon Younger: Great session! Thank you all.
01:00:36 Brad Z.: Reacted to “rural= untapped supp…” with 👍
01:00:51 Link: People are not living in cities anymore. Internet capabilities have enabled people in rural to access work. Rural people don’t have to work for minimum wage or be retired. Now we can scale ourselves and our career. People can work from anywhere…The future of work needs to know and understand rural living and ways to build on talent’s capabilities to access work. period.
01:01:22 Open Assembly: Shawn Fields: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnfields/
01:01:22 John Healy: +1 Link….and rural is global
01:01:30 Carin-Isabel Knoop: the difference here is that we aer not automatic PHYSICAL work but MENTAL work — it is super fascinating
01:01:31 Link: ❤️
01:01:45 Bondili, Balaji: +1 Link. Farmers for the win.
01:01:58 Open Assembly: Steve King: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveking2/
01:02:10 John Healy: farmers are agriculture’s prompt engineers!
01:02:26 Bondili, Balaji: Reacted to “farmers are agricult…” with 🎉
01:02:31 Matt Dowling: Thanks all, great chat.
01:02:46 Link: Yes but not just farmers. Aging and retired with an abundance of knowledge about business, law etc. My rural region’s median age is 57
01:03:20 John Healy: its an “and” not an or
01:04:03 Marcus: Reacted to “The future is rural.…” with 👍
01:04:03 Link: Open talent can include caregivers, hotel room cleaners- small businesses that need to fill a Friday afternoon dishwashing job- now these businesses can hire fractional labor through an app.
01:04:07 Marcus: Reacted to “rural= untapped supp…” with 👍
01:04:13 Caroline Ayoub – Khibraty Platform: Another great biweekly session, thanks OA and everyone 🙂 looking forward to connect https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolineayoub/
01:04:15 John Healy: love that the OA community is staying current….this is new, time to learn and experiment, and its great to be part of a group that’s on it!
01:04:16 Open Assembly: Thank you all! Amazing conversation. Invite your friends! https://open-assembly.com/community-membership
01:04:17 Bondili, Balaji: Maybe now it is “tooling” in addition to learning.
01:04:35 Link: It’s not always about the tech- it’s how the tech can enable work
01:04:37 alexwente: Super interesting conversation today. I’m thankful for this community!
01:04:54 Lucas Meyers: That point unfortunately speaks to widening the divide between top and bottom: access to learning
01:04:58 Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkdreams/
01:04:59 Ashley Ryall: Awesome conversation today, thank you!
01:05:08 robert: Thanks
01:05:12 Una Herlihy: Such an interesting conversation! Thanks all at OA for facilitating. Bye!
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO JOINED!!!
