Fear not.. "Chat GPT" won't steal your job but it will change it forever

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The debate about "Chat GPT" and its fellow artificial intelligence technologies is still burning, not only regarding the superior capabilities of these technologies, but also about their impact on the future of jobs. The prevailing view is that artificial intelligence will steal your job, but Annie Laurie, a writer at " The Atlantic says that this argument is simply wildly inaccurate, because the relationship between humans and AI - at the job level - is more complex than people think.

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Over the next five years, artificial intelligence is likely to begin to reduce job opportunities for university graduates. As technology continues to advance, AI will be a means by which humans can perform tasks that previously required a high level of education and skill. And once companies look to cut costs by automating all tasks, they are willing to let go of workers in some industries.

It is true that it is difficult to predict how things will turn out in the end, but it is clear that artificial intelligence has penetrated our lives to the extent that we will witness its great impact on the labor market, especially on the jobs occupied by university graduates. In light of this crisis that we are going through, this situation will force humans to be aware of the latest developments related to artificial intelligence and think about how to benefit from their skills and experiences in light of a world in which the ability of machines to perform many tasks is increasing strongly.

You may have recently heard about ChatGPT, which relies on artificial intelligence techniques to answer user questions in a creative way. This acronym refers to the "Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer". The new technology launched by the American company "Open AI", which is one of the most influential artificial intelligence research centers in the country, was able to prove its truly amazing capabilities in simulating human methods, and writing entire paragraphs on any topic that might be asked of it.

The new chatbot "ChatGPT" is one of the generative AI tools that raises eyebrows among users. The new chatbot isn't the first of its kind to raise such eyebrows, and similar tools have already shown surprising potential for creating new content, such as the AI image generators DALL-E and Midjourney (trained to turn text into an animated image). even with art competitions), or the video generator "Synthesia" (a technique for converting plain text into a video clip in which a person moves their lips in sync with the text, but you wouldn't notice that the person was not real).

composite scenarios

It's easy to see the positive side of these AI tools, simply because they can produce huge amounts of digital content very quickly and inexpensively. While students used the new ChatGPT bot to help them write articles, companies also achieved what they wanted by using this new technology to create copy for their websites and promotional materials, and to respond to customer inquiries, while lawyers used it to write legal memos, and used Academics use to write some footnotes for their projects.

As much as we can see the positive aspects of AI tools, it is also easy to see their more negative aspects. Have you ever wondered what new technologies like ChatGPT could become after replacing writers, copywriters, journalists, customer service reps, paralegals, programmers, and digital marketers? This question has been bothering thinkers in the technical field for many years, and they have often warned us about the absolute flexibility of artificial intelligence and the extent of its creativity, because such qualities represent a real threat to office employees when the doors to work are closed in their face and artificial intelligence has the job that they have been sitting in under its lap for ages and they believe it is immune. against automation systems.

In the darkest and most extreme scenario, analysts assume that AI will change the job landscape forever, with one Oxford University study estimating that 47% of American jobs could be at risk. Recent memory has often witnessed these dominant human tools, but none of them caused mass job losses among highly educated workers. Will generative AI suffer the same fate as its predecessors, or will the situation really be different under it? In view of life becoming increasingly difficult with the development of technology, and the slow pace of recruitment processes in response to technological change, this question will remain difficult to answer.

However, technology experts see that artificial intelligence is really different, because it fights the battle skillfully and emerges victorious with its ability to transform a set of tasks that were hitherto impossible to automate into doable ones. In the same context, says David Autor, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the world's leading experts in the field of employment and technological change: "In the past, artificial intelligence showed predictable linear progression, and all you had to do then was teach the computer the steps." , and he will follow everything you dictate to him without any increase or decrease, he will not learn anything on his own and will not improvise”, while the “ChatGPT” chatbot was developed on the other hand to improvise, thereby destabilizing many of the work of office employees, regardless of what happens to the fate of these jobs in the end.

The main goal for individuals and companies is how to use and exploit emerging AI technologies to create new products, streamline their business processes, and improve efficiency.

employees. But if we seek the lesson between the folds of the events of history, we will discover that life does not change suddenly with these new inventions, but rather it takes longer than you think. Take electricity, for example. Electric circuits, lights, and rudimentary motors were developed in the early nineteenth century, but electricity did not play an effective role in raising the gross domestic product in the United States until another century after its appearance. Or take computers, which became commercially available in the early 1950s, but did not appear in productivity statistics until the late 1990s.

The Internet has not yet sparked a productivity revolution, and neither have smartphones. So the most important question here remains: Is artificial intelligence becoming closer to smartphones or to automated tools? (Shutterstock)

It is clear, of course, that some technologies are still being celebrated and appreciated for their role in improving productivity and reducing the need for labour. For example, automated tools reduce labor in manufacturing along with raising productivity, as do many forms of machinery that have been invented and used since the revolution. industrial. But on the other hand, some other technologies - even those that surprised us - did not leave behind tangible effects, and the closest example of this is the Internet, which revolutionized all aspects of communication in the past four decades, despite its ability to artfully tempt us to relate to it and change Our lifestyle has radically changed, from the way we know our life partners, the way we speak, read and interact, and record our own life stories, to launch millions of companies, and amassing a lot of wealth, the Internet has failed to be a great invention from the point of view of the economist Robert Gordon.

Gordon stated in 2000, saying: "It is true that we have found in the Internet space information and entertainment in a way that is cheaper and easier than before, but its excessive use can hinder our lives, because it replaces current activities with its different uses from one medium to another." Nearly a quarter of a century later, the Internet has not yet sparked a productivity revolution, and neither have smartphones. So the most important question here remains: Is artificial intelligence becoming closer to smartphones or to automated tools (that work automatically)? Is it about to change the way humans do work without eliminating many jobs altogether, or is it about to send us down a cliff by turning the world into a rust belt? (It is a term applied to the northeastern region of the United States, referring to the economic decline and urban decay due to the contraction of the previously strong industrial sector).

Remember the dread we had a few years ago about the prospect that self-driving cars would eliminate truck drivers? Artificial intelligence plays a role in fueling similar concerns among office workers, simply because it is more flexible than Excel, and has more creative capacity than Google Doc, in addition to the fact that artificial intelligence systems are improving with time and becoming better with increasing numbers of employees. They use and ingest more data, while engineers often struggle to update other types of software with little success.

He won't remove it.. but he will change it

As a general rule, once companies can replace machines with people, they will do so without hesitation. This is because AI can now replace paralegals, copywriters, digital content producers, executive assistants, junior programmers, and even some journalists. This means that such functions may change very soon. Although their future looks cloudy, they can regain some reassurance, because even if ChatGPT can write a very good paragraph on, say, the topic of AI, they won't be able to meet AI experts and have a deep conversation with them, nor will they. His quest results in finding historical documents, or evaluating the quality of studies on technological change and the future of employment.
Artificial intelligence creates content from what already exists without real understanding, or the ability to correct itself, and it is impossible to come up with new ideas that might arouse attention and curiosity, and this means that artificial intelligence may add more value to original journalism, and stimulate investigative journalists (those who conduct investigative reports) To be more efficient and productive, while creating an abundance of simpler content. However, the difference between the machine and humans remains clear. While the superficiality of the results of artificial intelligence is evident in what it provides us with lists and summaries of public sessions or public meetings, humans, on the other hand, write in-depth stories on these topics. In the same context, Autor says: "In many ways, artificial intelligence will become a way for humans to master their tasks in the best way, and to employ their expertise in a better way, leading them towards a more specialized way of working in their fields."
AI can also help a variety of industries become more efficient without compromising human jobs. Matt Wampler, co-founder of a small AI company called ClearCOGS, shares his experience by saying that throughout his career working in restaurants, he discovered that restaurants and grocery stores still tend to waste large amounts of food. If people order more pasta than burgers, the restaurant has to waste the remaining burgers. On this he says: “You will often find that the link between restaurants and technology is tenuous, everything there is about people, people serving people, and people running people. In this world centered on people, the usual way to deal with problems that demand solutions is to hand them over to someone ".