6 jobs that artificial intelligence will replace

Artificial intelligence (AI) has slowly infiltrated our work culture and seconds www.howstuffworks.com, ChatGPT’s game-changing release has everyone talking about how generative AI will change the way we work. With every new technology comes disruption to the job market, but something is different about ChatGPT and similar programs like Google Bard and Microsoft Bing AI.

Generative AI is a new type of artificial intelligence that uses algorithms to generate original text, images, software code, Excel formulas and even music from a simple text message.

Generative AI applications like ChatGPT have been “trained” on massive amounts of data and can produce human-quality content in seconds.

According to a 2023 Goldman Sachs report, labor markets in both the U.S. and Europe could “face significant disruption” if generative AI lives up to the hype. Up to a quarter of current jobs could be completely replaced by AI, and two-thirds of all jobs, or 300 million jobs, will be affected by AI automation in ways big and small .

The good news is that changes in the labor market are moving slowly, says Tom Davenport, professor of computer science and management at Babson College in Massachusetts and author of several best-selling books on AI in the workplace. “In general, these AI tools will eat away at the margins of jobs, automating certain tasks,” Davenport says. “And even if those tasks are fully taken over, there’s still a need for a human in the loop.”

The advent of generative AI has shifted the focus of automation from blue-collar workers to white-collar workers. To automate a knowledge-based job, you don’t need a robot or any expensive machinery, experts say, “All you need is software, an algorithm. That’s what ChatGPT in particular has really highlighted.

So which jobs will be affected as we move closer to perfect AI? Content marketers are first on the list. There is an entire industry dedicated to marketing products and services through web articles, videos and social media posts. Digital marketers write blog posts, produce videos and maintain social media channels for large corporations and small shops. But this kind of targeted content is exactly what generative AI is designed to create.

There are already powerful apps like Jasper, an AI that delivers quick articles, personalized emails and timely Twitter posts at the push of a button. Even better (or worse), Jasper automates many of the other tasks that are part of a content marketing campaign, such as A/B testing and search engine optimization.

Davenport says the people who should be most concerned are marketers who specialize in “low-quality content” that doesn’t require much original thinking. “By definition, AI can only produce things that are a variation of what’s already there,” says Davenport. “If you want something new, you’re still going to have to turn to a human.”

Should journalists be worried? May be. They ranked second on the list. Certain types of journalism are already being replaced by AI, such as sports reporting that lends itself easily to automation. An algorithm can look at a score of a baseball or basketball game, which players scored and when, how the winning team took the lead, etc., and produce a 500-word article that tells a compelling and accurate story.

The same is true of some types of financial journalism, such as quarterly announcements of earnings reports and other business data. Since 2014, The Associated Press has partnered with an AI platform called Automated Insights to publish thousands of earnings reports a year without a single human reporter. The Associated Press said that doing this had allowed business reporters 20% more time that could be used to do more in-depth stories.

Creative and artistic work is not immune to automation and ranks third on the list. OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 is the brain behind ChatGPT and generates images the same way ChatGPT generates text. Type a message like “create a business card for a pet grooming service called Pet Palace” and DALL-E 2 will instantly create dozens of different business card designs. The results, according to a professional graphic designer, are amazing.

In our digital world, companies and organizations are drowning in data: sales figures, demographics, climate models, etc. It’s the job of data analysts, number four on the list, to sift through all that data, identify hidden trends and make them actionable. recommendations A big part of a data analyst’s job is selecting fields and filters and figuring out the best spreadsheet formulas to incorporate the data. The good (and bad) news is that artificial intelligence can now do much of this time-consuming work.

As with many other job sectors, there will continue to be a need for high-level analysis and decision-making, Davenport says, “but lower-level data analysis, such as financial modeling in investment banking and private equity, many of these could be taken by AI.”

Programmers and programmers rank fifth. Most experts agree that generative AI will be a boon for software developers. With AI tools like Copilot, programmers don’t have to painstakingly code line by line from scratch. They can only write one prompt and the algorithm can generate high-quality code in various coding languages.

According to a paper from Microsoft and MIT, software developers who used Copilot were able to write a program 56% faster than traditional coders. In the tech industry, where mass layoffs have already decimated the workforce, coders are rightly rooting for entry-level programming jobs to be replaced by AI.

For software developers who keep their jobs, many will take on new roles as “rapid engineers,” or people skilled at entering the best pointers into automated coding applications.

Number six was surprising: Lawyers. AI and other types of legal software are already transforming the discovery process, figuring out which documents are relevant to a case. The AI also handles contract generation and contract parsing. It’s low-level, repetitive and time-consuming legal work that will be automated first, so there will be less need for entry-level lawyers, but critics argue that AI will never replace most of what lawyers do . Rather, it will simply allow lawyers, like other professionals, to spend more time on general reflection and less on heavy-handed work.

On the other hand, automated legal services could provide a critical resource for low-income Americans, 86 percent of whom could not afford legal representation in civil cases, according to the American Bar Association.

Next week, I’ll write about the jobs that AI will struggle to take over – stay tuned!

Peg DeMarco is a Morganton resident who writes a weekly column for The News Herald. Contact her at pegdemarco@earthlink.net.