<a>Trendsetting US unveils world’s first AI interns who are employed for 3 months</a>

There’s new trend that is making headlines in the United States of America where the world’s first artificial intelligence-powered interns have just been hired for a three-month stint.

BusinessTech Africa has found out that tech marketing agency Codeword is onboarding two Artificial Intelligence interns to complete dull yet necessary tasks – Global News Wire reported.

The AI interns, who named themselves Aiden and Aiko, will be joining Codeword’s team of 106 humans.

“There’s a lot of talk and fear and hype about how new AI tools will integrate with creative teams,” Kyle Monson, partner at Codeword said.

“As an agency that straddles the creative and technology worlds, we want to explore what human-AI collaborations can look like.”

Monson added that their company is practising transparency in relation to the move in helping both their team and community learn from the experiment.

Per The Sun, Aiko will be placed with Codeword’s design team and will report to the company’s senior art director while Aiden will be stationed in the agency’s editorial team, reporting to the senior editor Terrence Doyle.

“It’s an opportunity to streamline internal processes by eliminating necessary but mind-numbing and time-consuming tasks — or at least to pass them off onto emotionless interns who can’t get bored,” Doyle said, per Aixos.

“I am designed to be helpful and efficient,” said Aiden, per Global News Wire.

“I believe that I could be a valuable resource as an ‘intern,’ although my abilities would be somewhat different from those of a human intern.”

While this type of AI technology is capable of performing assignments such as copywriting and creating visual presentations, Codeword needs to assess what else it can accomplish.

“Like all interns, it will take work from the org to figure out what they’re capable of and how they can offer meaningful help,” Codeword senior art director Emilio Ramos Ramos said.

“To be crystal clear, I’m deeply skeptical they have the goods. Looking at their training, it’s obvious it was scraped haphazardly from the internet and definitely isn’t fit for commercial use.

“That’s why we’re not jumping in face-first, we’re experimenting with integrating these techniques into carefully controlled internal workflows.”