CIPD Buddy

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Hi, my name is David de Souza and I'm Director of Profession at the CIPD.

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It's our job to ensure that we're consistently and constantly finding ways to improve our offer to the profession and that involves at times looking at new and exciting emerging technologies.

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For the last few months, we've been investing in a new tool that we call CIPD Buddy.

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And Buddy is essentially an AI bot designed to help you find the resources that you need from us more effectively.

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However, with every opportunity becomes risk.

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And before we unleash Buddy with a full stamp of approval, what we wanted to do was to test it with the profession so we can learn together the limits of technology like this in a profession that is highly reliant on excellent judgement calls and very specialist technical knowledge.

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So with that in mind, we would like you to do 2 things.

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One, if you are using Buddy, please rely on the fact sheets and the guidance that we have more broadly rather than what Buddy says, but do use Buddy as an Ave to that information.

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And secondly, share your insights with us.

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Is it accurate enough?

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Is it helpful in the job that you're doing?

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Is it something that's actually useful to you?

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They're the questions that we're trying to get at the heart of.

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In return, we'll give you access to this technology.

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We'll keep finding ways to be better for you and we'll share the outcomes of the feedback that you give us as we go along.

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Look forward to hearing from you.

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Look forward to you getting hopefully some use from some really exciting new technology.

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Thank you.