Is ChatGPT’s AI a real threat to the future of human beings at work?

Few people should remain in the world who do not know ChatGPT (at least his name will ring a bell). ChatGPT’s boom is undeniable, as are its multiple functions. This OpenAI AI tool is here to stay and big doubts are now haunting the minds of some for the possibility of ending up relieving them of their jobs.

Now we will see if some jobs can be threatened by ChatGPT, but the one that has already sounded the alarm is Google.

And it is that, recently the foundations of this company have begun to shake and the management of Google has declared the launch of Open AI ChatGPT as a “red code”, which is equivalent to activating the fire alarm. In short, they are already seeing that this artificial intelligence has great potential.

For years the world has been feared artificial intelligence, technology and its imminent “conquest of the world” and it seems that now almost more than ever with the arrival of the unstoppable ChatGPTwhich, in addition, we already know will soon be paid.

Could ChatGPT send us to the unemployment queue?

As we have already said, many already affirm that Google is dead, but of course, all this does not stop here and there are many others who consider that human jobs are also in danger.

The Guardian, for example, claimed that “teachers, programmers and journalists could be out of a job in a few years”. Another opinion, from the Australian Computer Society, Information Age, suggested the same thing. The Telegraph announced that the bot could “do your job better than you.”

However, we do not know if it is because of the clickbait or they really consider it, but seems to be spreading the panic more than it should. A very simple example so that you understand where our opinion is going: a 2015 BBC report highlighted five jobs that robots will steal first: taxi drivers, factory workers, journalists, doctors and the job of mixologist.

Despite this, there you have them and with an increasing need for human presence in these sectors and if not, tell Apple that increasingly hires more people in its factories (100,000 new workers to relieve the pressure of production).

Yes, of course it is technology It can be a useful tool for beginners who don’t even know where to start, and even help programmers write code faster.

Of course, no matter how great ChatGPT is (because it really is, despite some bugs, which will improve), it should be remembered that, As impressive as current AIs are, they are also highly specialized and consequently limited. Even Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which produced ChatGPT, has confirmed this.

“ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at a few things to create a deceptive impression of greatness. It’s a mistake to rely on it for anything important right now. It’s a stepping stone; we have a lot of work to do on robustness and veracity”he wrote in a tweet.

There is one thing humans are especially bad at: predicting the future

It is quite provable that For humans, that of predicting what will happen with certain innovations or how the future appears to us, is a subject that we still have to improve. As Bill Gates so well said: “We always overestimate the change that will take place in the next two years and underestimate the change that will take place in the next ten.”

The same goes for ChatGPT in this case. It is true that alarmism sells very well and it is a possibility that, as with everything, exists and as such must be exposed, but always cautiously. Many media are already talking about the end of journalism or the writer because of artificial intelligence, when the reality is far from that point.

In 2012, Kristian Hammond predicted that 90% of news stories would be written by an algorithm in 15 years. We’re not quite there yet, but the evidence with ChatGPT is that the AI ​​still has a ways to go. Sebastian Moss, editor-in-chief of trade journal DatacenterDynamics, tried using ChatGPT to write a story earlier this month, and this is his conclusion.

“The AI ​​is terrible at choosing sides: its articles are many pros and cons lists with no reward. It lacks technical knowledge and often confuses things. It knows nothing current, and says nothing new… The item is closer to a worked school than from an industry magazine”, Moss wrote.

It is undeniable that the world is changing little by little and artificial intelligence is going to be one of the big players in all these developments. Nevertheless, Let’s go calmly because for the moment, instead of replacing us, all you are doing is improving our quality of work.

Simply put, what this will mean in several years is that entry-level positions involving highly repetitive tasks will begin to disappear, while roles focused on complex tasks will emerge in their place with much more competitive salaries, so a win-win.

Over time These tools will end up becoming another ally, such as the translator or grammar checkers.but it seems that up to there we can read if we try to make an objective prediction of the future.

If we ever find ourselves in a world where all the code is written by AI, there will possibly be a new worked: “AI question architects.” These people will build the questions for ChatGPT or other AIs that generate the correct code. In the end, human presence will always be necessary, in one way or another.