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OFFICE GEOLOGY / No. 34 / AI & automation

The control group

Chip tests an automated workflow and discovers that the experiment has created another job for him.

  1. Chip01

    The automated job takes longer than doing it myself.

    Chip watches a single sheet circulate around a long conveyor while holding a stopwatch and resting his other hand against his face.
  2. Vera02

    Then we need a manual control group.

    Vera presents a manual stamping desk and the automated conveyor as Chip looks doubtful.
  3. Flint03

    Excellent. Chip can do both.

    Chip stamps paper at one desk while feeding a sheet into the conveyor at the other; Flint proudly presents the experiment.
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  1. Panel 1

    Chip watches a single sheet circulate around a long conveyor while holding a stopwatch and resting his other hand against his face.

    Chip: The automated job takes longer than doing it myself.

  2. Panel 2

    Vera presents a manual stamping desk and the automated conveyor as Chip looks doubtful.

    Vera: Then we need a manual control group.

  3. Panel 3

    Chip stamps paper at one desk while feeding a sheet into the conveyor at the other; Flint proudly presents the experiment.

    Flint: Excellent. Chip can do both.