Large companies like Microsoft and Google point out that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are a co-pilot or assistant for users in general, but many experts believe that this type of technology will change many professionsWhether it’s making their jobs simpler and faster, replacing employees, or creating new professions.
Telemarketing, accountants, translators, teachers, programmers and even investors are some of the professions that studies have indicated will change as AI becomes more popular.
The capabilities of GPT-4, the latest version of OpenAI -creators of ChatGPT-, can solve “new and difficult tasks” with a “level of human performance” in fields like mathematics, coding, medicine, law and psychology, according to a paper published in March by researchers at Microsoft – a company that has invested billions in OpenAI.
What will be the professions most affected by ChatGPT?
New York University professor Robert Seamans participated in a study on how language shapers like ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bing, and Bard will affect professions.
“Telemarketing was the occupation that we found to be most exposed to changes in language modeling or advances in language modeling, followed by other professions such as teaching,” Seamans told EFE.
The top five professions on the list are telemarketers, university professors of English language and literature, university professors of foreign languages, university professors of history and university professors of law.
Specialists believe that this technology will change many professions and make jobs simpler and faster
Other unions not related to education that were among the twenty most affected positions were sociology, political science, mediators and judges.
However, Seamans indicates that this does not mean that these jobs will be replaced by AI, but what can happen is that it is “would complement to the work that is being done.”
Another recently published study, which also looked at the “labour market impact of language models”, indicates that clerks are among the professionals whose careers are most exposed to the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence, with at least half of accounting tasks could be completed much faster with this technology.
The same is true for mathematicians, interpreters, writers and nearly 20% of the US workforce, according to the study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and OpenAI.
ChatGPT: friend or foe of programmers?
Seamans notes that he would like to investigate Microsoft-owned GitHub’s Copilot generative AI tool and the effect it will have on various jobs.
“What GitHub Co-Pilot does is help software developers by suggesting ideas to them as they write code, it suggests commands and code that the developer might want to follow. Sort of like what Gmail does in emails,” he explains.
According to Seamans, this allows computer scientists to do their work more quickly and can even help those who are studying this profession.
A fourth study by GitHub researchers evaluated the impact of generative AI on software developers.
In 2022 there were almost 800,000 AI-related job openings in the United States
In this test, developers given an entry-level task and encouraged to use Copilot completed their task 55% faster than those who did it manually.
While AI may still be a long way from managing the stock market of investor money on its own, a study called “Can ChatGPT Improve Investment Decision from a Portfolio Management Perspective?” points out that ChatGPT is already a better portfolio manager than an inexperienced person.
The key: develop critical thinking
On the other hand, in 2022 there were almost 800,000 job offers related to AI in the United States, according to data compiled by the Institute for Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University.
California was the state with the most AI-related hires – more than 142,000 in 2022 – and, on average, 1.5% of job postings in any of the 50 states were AI-related.
Asked what profession he would recommend to a teenager, Seamans said that he would first advise them to find a profession according to their likes and passions.
“All of that aside, I would tell you to think about the skills that we humans have and think about investing in that. Things like judgment and critical thinking. Those are skills that go into many different types of professions,” he concludes.
