By: Jessica Wang
Ever since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in 2020, it has boosted technology, revolutionizing virtual assistance and artificial intelligence. In recent months, people have begun to realize just how great a danger artificial intelligence poses to jobs that focus on linguistic skills and repetitive tasks.
Reporter Megan Cerullo in an interview on CBS News noted that OpenAI predicts that almost 4.8 million jobs could be replaced by artificial intelligence. In addition, the University of Oxford thinks that 47% of jobs could be terminated over the next 20 years. “I’m going to be unemployed by the end of the year,” an editor of the newspaper WIRED, says in shock after seeing ChatGPT entirely rewrite the summary of an article.
In professions like software engineering and programming, many believe that tasks that once required an entire team of coders can now be accomplished by just a few individuals with the assistance of artificial intelligence. ChatGPT can work magic with numbers – quickly too – making it easy for humans to rely on bots.
In other professions, such as teaching, employees might not necessarily be worried about losing their jobs, but about the authenticity of students’ work. ChatGPT is accessible to everyone just by signing up with their emails. While the purpose of the chat bot is for the greater good, what’s to stop students from cheating on assignments? And that’s just one possible area of concern.
Customer service agents are at high risk of being terminated too. Many companies have been equipped with customer service bots long before ChatGPT arrived, but those bots have automated responses that were manually added. Think about what ChatGPT could do if it was put into a position like this and how beneficial it could be to companies rather than paying a human to do the same job.
Artificial intelligence will definitely revolutionize the world. However, it could also wreck a lot of lives.
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https://www.wired.com/story/status-work-generative-artificial-intelligence/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-jobs/