"Is ChatGPT smart enough to replace specialists in different fields?"-the question has been circulating a lot lately.
Global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas recently asked the "generative AI" tool, developed by research firm OpenAI, in plain English how many workers it expects to replace. The answer: 4.8 million American jobs.
"Right now, artificial intelligence should be viewed as a tool to support workers and not as a replacement for their roles. Certainly, predictive language models can be used to automate tasks, giving workers more time to focus on those involving higher thinking," senior vice president Andrew Challenger said in a statement.
Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment and investment management company, estimated in its latest report that 18% of jobs in the world could eventually be eliminated by AI technology.
Currently, ChatGPT is most widely used to support workers in a range of industries, helping to complete tasks that still require human judgment.
The outplacement firm also asked the LLM another straightforward question: "What jobs can ChatGPT replace?" It answered that its capabilities make it best suited to take over roles that are centered on language and that are repetitive and predictable. ChatGPT predicted that LLMs could one day replace workers in the following roles:
• Customer service representatives
• Translators and interpreters
• Copywriters
• Data entry clerks
Fields that ChatGPT sees itself as most capable of entering include:
• Data science
• Machine learning
• Computer science
• Mathematics and statistics
• Robotics and automation
• Business
Of course, as paradoxical as it sounds, as with previous innovation cycles, tools like ChatGPT may even create more jobs than eliminate them.