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Search for the jobs most vulnerable to AI skyrockets after ChatGPT launch
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Just days after a report fromGoldman Sachs saying that 300 million jobscould be at risk of being replaced by so-called generative AI tools such asChatGPTor solutions fromGoogleorMicrosoft(and others), data collected by TechRadar Pro shows that search around jobs most at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence has increased by an order of magnitude since November 2022 whenChatGPTopened up to the general public.
Not surprisingly,programmerswere the ones most attuned to the risk of losing out to AI withwill chatgpt replace programmers,will ai replace programmersandcan chatgpt replace programmersseeing search queries increase by almost 20x over the past four months to tens of thousands of searches per month.
It’s almost been two years sinceMicrosoft released Copilot on Github, a tool developed withOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which helps programmers code better and as of February 2023, accounts for almost half of all the code written on Github (up from 27% in June 2022).
Artistshave also been particularly intrigued by the arrival of a plethora of AI tools likeDall-E,Midjourney,Stable DiffusionorAdobe Firefly, tools that offer a new sort of challenge for thousands of freelancers, small businesses, creatives and professionals worldwide. Search forwill ai replace artistsshot up by 3100% but even that was dwarfed by the 64x rise in search forwill AI replace designers.
AI will surpass human beings at, well, being what makes us humans at the core
Large language models and chatbots that can not only converse like humans do (ChatGPT has passed the Turing test) but can also deliver results in a variety of forms (images, text, audio, videos).
And yes, there’s some buzz amongst a lot of my colleagues as to how this new technology can help empower rather than replace journalists, how it can become an exoskeleton for us humans rather than a super soldier. Fittingly enough, we’ve also written abest AI writerbuying guide.
The common denominator of the above job categories is creativity and it seems inevitable that given enough time and resources, AI will surpass human beings at, well, being what makes us humans at the core, our ability to create new things using nothing more than our imagination and life experience.
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Other jobs singled out during my keyword research include software designers, graphic designers, web developers but also accountants, lawyers, data analysts, radiologists and doctors. I used anSEO keyword toolcalledKeywordtool.ioto extract the data from Google global search database with the latest numbers as of the end of February 2023.
Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled inwebsite buildersandweb hostingwhen DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.
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