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Balkrishna Karma

Will AI create or destroy jobs? Which ones? Share your perspective!

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Here is what ChatGPT replied- AI has the potential to impact a wide range of jobs across various industries. Here are some examples: 1. Customer service representatives: AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants can handle many routine customer inquiries, reducing the need for human customer service representatives. 2. Manufacturing workers: AI-powered robots can perform many routine manufacturing tasks, reducing the need for human workers. 3. Financial analysts: AI can analyze vast amounts of financial data and provide insights, reducing the need for human analysts. 4. Truck drivers and delivery drivers: Self-driving vehicles have the potential to reduce the need for human drivers. It's important to note that while AI may impact some jobs, it may also create new job opportunities in fields such as AI development, maintenance, and management.
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Uma Venugopal
It's a double-edged sword. Imagine industrial revolution - people objected to machines in factories but it only ended up aiding productivity and creating better jobs. Same goes with AI, imho.
Uma Venugopal
@balkrishna_karma1 tale as old as time, "survival of the fittest" :)
Neder Ghadhab
Many jobs as we have known them will change. We are seeing this with copywriters, book writers, writers of movie scripts, all those jobs where chatgpt is able to make a significant contribution. I am not sure if AI will eliminate some professions, but I am sure it will force us more and more to evolve and adapt to change. Surely skills and professionalism will win out, because those who used to pretend to know how to do a job now find themselves forced to actually learn or change jobs. Ultimately I would say that those with skills and professionalism will not be replaced by AI, while those who have always pretended until now will be wiped out.
Stephen
I used to live in an English coal mining village where there was only one industry - coal mining! Then Margaret Thatcher closed the mines. It felt like a living disaster for that community, whose parents and grandparents had built their entire life around the mines. Fast forward 30 years - their children manage the leisure parks, golf courses and small businesses that sprung up where the mines used to be. The future of work could be rough as we go through disruption, it will certainly be different, and most likely it will be better too.
Deniz Sutaş
I believe it will change the nature of jobs, and many white collar positions will be replaced with AI and those that are able to navigate AI effectively. OR maybe, this I think is more likely, the same amount of white collar workers will have to learn and navigate relevant AI systems to increase their output. Those unable to adapt will not carry the same value as before, and companies will drive expectations and workload even higher to stay on top of competition, by utilizing AI to the max. Let me wrap up with this anecdote: I personally take 3-4 hours to manually write and edit an average blog, the same process takes 0.5 hours using CopyAI+Grammarly+SEMrush SEO Writing Assistant (I know we have GPT-4 now lol). I can't imagine a scenario where work output expectations remain the same in the corporate world with all these tools, and those who have more time on their hands.
David J. Kim
I would say that for every job AI creates, 5 or 7 more are gone from AI. Not quite like the industrial revolution. For one, the AI revolution is happening much faster at a larger scale. Plus, there will be a point where AI will get good enough to manage and maintain itself.