Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to news in the morning of April 17, Beijing time, it is reported that the global technology industry has ushered in a rare wave of "layoffs" in the past year. However, houses have missed every night of rain, and ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence dialogue writing tool throughout the network recently, has made more technology workers worry about losing their jobs. It is clear that the new tools of generative artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT are slowly seeping into the workplace.

According to relevant statistics, since the beginning of this year alone, the total number of layoffs in the technology industry has been 5% more than the total number of layoffs in 2022.

At this pace, the number of layoffs in the technology industry in 2023 will exceed the previous worst record, 2001. At that time, with the bursting of the dotcom bubble, countless large numbers of technology workers lost their jobs.

As the wave of layoffs continues, more practitioners are now not only losing their jobs, they are also worried that their jobs will always be replaced by cool techs. Recently, a report from Goldman Sachs pointed out that artificial intelligence and other automation technologies will impact 300 million jobs worldwide.

However, Sultan Sandorf (Sultan Saidov), co-founder and president of Beamery, a US human resources online software service, says that for office workers, ChatGPT and artificial intelligence do not need to be completely regarded as "wolves" because these tools can improve the productivity of employees and companies. It is reported that Beamery has also developed an industry-wide GPT tool based on the language model, which is called "TalentGPT" (which means talent GPT).

Sandorf said it is estimated that 300 million jobs around the world will be hit by artificial intelligence and automation, but the key question is, will these 300 million people change their jobs or lose their jobs forever? He believes that in more cases, jobs will be changed rather than jobs lost.

ChatGPT is one of the GPT tools that can use language models for learning and training, and then provide conversations and answers that simulate human beings. Sandorf says GPT can do more than just talk. In the technology industry, artificial intelligence will affect more jobs than other industries.

Creativity and designers should learn AI technology Sandoff said that in the technology industry, there are a large number of creative people, such as designers, video game creators, photographers, and digital image painters, these positions will not be replaced by artificial intelligence, but GPT technology will help designers do their work more efficiently.

If you look back at the industrial revolution in history, when machines appeared in agriculture, does that mean fewer people are needed in agriculture? The answer is yes, because agriculture no longer needs so many people in the past, but many of the surplus people later took up completely different new jobs.

As with similar technological revolutions in history, in the creative industry, even with the popularity of generative artificial intelligence tools and other new technologies, the market still needs creative people.

Sandorf said that in the game industry, if the number of games developed around the world remains the same every year, there will be fewer and fewer game designers needed in the future, but as productivity increases, artificial intelligence technology will allow game companies to develop more games every year.

Software developers and engineers will be hit by the global craze triggered by ChatGPT, making many software developers and engineers worry about their jobs, some practitioners have begun to learn new technologies, especially how to use generative artificial intelligence, they want to add these cool techs to their resumes.

Ceipal is an American talent acquisition platform based on artificial intelligence technology. Penakalapati, the company's chief executive, said it was unfair to say that GPT would completely destroy some jobs, such as developers and engineers.

However, even if these jobs continue to exist in the future, their work will be eroded and weakened by GPT and generative artificial intelligence technology.

In the job market, it is necessary to distinguish between GPT in the narrow sense and generative artificial intelligence in the broad sense, says Mr Pengkaba. He believes that GPT is a mathematical and statistical model that can learn various patterns and produce results. But other generative artificial intelligence has a wider range and can be complex reorganized according to patterns and learning outcomes, more like the human brain.

Pengkaba takes the software industry as an example. For example, for programmers, engineers, and testers, GPT can write a large amount of code in an instant, and software users or customers can get satisfactory results without having to communicate requirements, adjust and correct errors with the development team repeatedly as in the past.

Punkaba says GPT can do the work of a programmer or tester in an instant, whereas in the past, human practitioners took days or weeks to do the same amount of work.

He says generative artificial intelligence will have a wide impact on the software engineer industry, especially development engineers (responsible for development and operations), affecting businesses including coding, code deployment, software maintenance and upgrade iterations. In these tasks, generative artificial intelligence can fully simulate the work of an engineer in a development cycle.

Pengkaba also said that within software companies, software developers and engineers are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence tools, but it is impossible for these tools to completely replace humans. A more common situation in the future is that fewer programmers and engineers are needed to develop a software project than in the past.

He said that no matter whether the software code is written by humans or not, in terms of how users interact with the software, or in terms of software design, such as which color to choose at a certain location, it always requires a human to make a decision.

Knowledge practitioners will benefit from ChatGPT Michael Chui, a partner at McKinsey Global Research Institute in the US, said that GPT and artificial intelligence will impact many jobs in many industries, while in the knowledge industry, these technologies will affect every job. The so-called intellectuals refer to the people who use or process information.

Cui Mack said that in many areas of knowledge, such as writing manuscripts, writing software code, making pictures, videos and music, generative artificial intelligence can quickly produce the first draft. Obviously, every knowledge worker can benefit from this technology, and this new technology has brought unprecedented speed of creation.

A recent survey by OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, found that about 80 per cent of American office workers, at least 10 per cent of their work, will be affected by the GPT learning model, while about 19 per cent of office workers will be affected by GPT.

Cui Mack said that it is hard for today's office workers to imagine an era without Microsoft Excel and Word office software. by the same token, future office workers will find it hard to imagine an era without generative artificial intelligence and GPT tools.

The industry said that historically, some new technologies have greatly improved productivity, but they have not necessarily led to a reduction in the number of people engaged in certain jobs, and one of the most important trends in the world is that people will continue to develop new software and technologies to improve efficiency.

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