Though AI is making major progress in the field of technology, that is not the only thing it is transforming. The potential of AI has transcended just working within the field, and now also has a direct impact on the nature of operations and roles within companies. One such role is that of the data manager. Does this imply that data managers will now be replaced by AI? The answer is no. However, there will be changes in the way the role was performed before the advent of AI.
The fundamental change for data managers would be moving from execution to strategy. Essentially, the role will now demand an approach that is more focused on defining how a task is to be executed, rather than manually performing the task yourself. So, instead of the tedious task of spotting each error and manually rectifying it, you need to clearly define the job once, and the AI agent executes it for thousands of SKUs.
Some of these tasks include data tagging, description writing, title concatenation, image background removal, image text removal, data extraction and more. Now not only will these tasks be performed more efficiently, and will relatively remain error-free, your role as the data manager will shift from actually doing these things to becoming a subject matter expert who tells the AI what to do. You will oversee the AI's output, and feed in corrections to make it better, especially because AI will definitely make mistakes that need human intervention.
Being an SME for your industry would mean that you would train your AI agent for particular and niche tasks, which would ensure accurate results. As the industry also evolves, you will continue to be on top of changes, and continue to train your AI. You will build guardrails that prevent it from hallucinating, and you keep the AI focused and accurate.
This inclusion of AI in workspaces can be meaningful, and even exciting! A data manager who can effectively pilot an AI agent to achieve scale is the one who scripts the future. You have the power to transform your industry! And with companies like dataX.ai, you will always be an integral and irreplaceable part of the field, whom we will aim to empower.