The Economist.
Hi, who is this?
Who am I talking to?
Hello, I'm Andrew Palmer, a senior writer at The Economist and the host of the Boss Class podcast.
Hello Andrew, this is totally weird.
This is totally weird.
I'm Andrew Palmer, senior writer at The Economist and host of the Boss Class podcast.
That is my digital clone.
It's been trained on my writing and my voice to answer questions about management and the world of work.
According to my Bartleby column, the workplace, day by day, is a theater of mild agitation.
I wrote that suspense can come from the smallest things,
like entering and exiting meetings or presenting when the clicker doesn't work.
It's a bit of an Andrew-only Google search.
Yes.
It only has the knowledge base of what you've written or spoken.
Ruth Berry created this monster.
She's a colleague here at The Economist and is part of an internal team experimenting with artificial intelligence.
How long has it taken you to do this?
Uh, this was an afternoon.
Right, okay. Very fast.