Whilst I don’t think ChatGPT or DALL·E is ready to put any decent writers/designers out of work *just* yet, the technology is developing pretty quickly and I think it could well start to happen within the next decade. If you think current career could be affected, even slightly, are you already thinking of retraining as something else? If so, what? Or are you just trying to get so good at what you do that even the cleverest AI couldn’t keep up? Or – am I just overthinking this and you reckon AI isn’t going to have any impact on the job market at all?
EDIT: This question is for \*all\* workers who might be impacted by AI – I highlighted writers and graphic designers specifically as those are the roles related to my career, but obvs AI might have the potential to impact other jobs too: software developers/counsellors/accountants/call center staff/etc etc etc.
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I’ll be dead long before any of that is a going concern for me.
I think most people who’s jobs are in the firing line haven’t realised it yet. I don’t think writers and designers are going to be the biggest areas for job losses.
I’m a software engineer and did consider recently that I should upskill to learn some AI principles myself. AI won’t abolish software roles, it’ll create them, but in the realms of creating AI.
I moved roles so now I work with designing and implementing these sorts of technologies.
Not because I had any real concern about it replacing my previous role.
None of the towns that are really vunerable to robots/AI seem to be taking any steps to prepare for the inevitable nuke it will put in the job market. My cities only big industries are warehouses/logistics and call centres. With Boston Dynamics and ChatGPT the whole place will be unemployed within 20 years.
My partner is a translator and has been told for almost 20 years now about how tech is going to replace her. I used to think an automation revolution was coming when I was a student but my experience of the work place has been that most companies and managers really aren’t at the cutting edge of technology. I think AI is going to be tool that speeds up writing, I can absolutely see staff using it to generate emails or small bits of writing for a website but it’s hardly going to replace anyone it’s going to be for writing what a calculator is for maths.
I think “AI” is overhyped.
It’s not even new. It’s just like the new crypto right now.
Hottest, trendiest thing in tech.
But I think it could be a very valuable TOOL in things like research, where you need to do a lot of maths.
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I’ve tinkered with ChatGPT and it gave me a lot of weird answers, inaccurate information and sometimes refused to give me information.
All the “research” it did for me was very shallow and…like it was pulled from a crappy blog post.
Sometimes it would cite sources for this research that weren’t correct.
It’s great for maths though, I can write out a problem instead of putting it into numbers.
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I think HUMANS using AI could replace generic writers/artists. Just like all those cheap logo “designers” using generators weeded out the not-so-great logo artists.
I think it will raise the bar on creative jobs and thin out oversaturated skills markets, sorting the wheat from the chaff.
But I don’t think it will entirely replace all human creative roles.
People are already tuning into what is AI created and what isn’t.
People want art from other people, with a person behind it and story.
People want their emails to come from other people, with real stories in them. We don’t want to talk to robots.
The more robots get into our society, the more humans will look for human connection and value human art even more.
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Regulation of these “AI” programmes is inevitable, they are essential super data mines. So I’d be interested to see how fast that happens and how that changes the game too.
Not concerned at all.
Chat GPT is being suggested as being able to write software, but the reality is it’s just a very clever search engine into things like OpenStack.
Getting a function written by someone else is already readily available (and has been for decades – I used to blatantly copy code from application guides in the mid-90s). The challenge is understanding it well enough so that when you plug things together, they work predictably.
Chat GPT hasn’t changed that, and isn’t likely to for a long time.
ChatGPT although impressive is not actually intelligent and its output is deterministic. I’ll worry when it can actually make autonomous decisions and can independently solve problems . Right now it is just a tool that can improve productivity. Best thing you can do is learn to use it and add it to your toolbox.
So let’s get Johnny real here. If you use Teams and Excel for your day to day job you’ve got 2 years left AT BEST 5 years. Your managers or their managers have already started looking at how to get rid of you. Simple matter of fact. There was an investment analyst on the news the other day and they literally said they can start getting rid of people TODAY! so you know you better retrain. Marketing type roles. Any typical business bullshit roles are gone. Luckily I can go back on the tools if needs be I’ve got a trade to fall back on. There’s a lot of people that haven’t got a fucking clue what’s about to hit them.
Chat gpt just takes stuff already written off the internet. Someone has to write it first so it will not completely take everyone’s job.
However with technology like this, best bet is to take a proactive approach. Better to try and understand it rather than burying your head in the sand.