The success of ChatGPT and its ability to write quality articles, posts and other texts have shown advances in Artificial Intelligence and generated debate about professional areas that are threatened today by technology.
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“AI is replacing white collar workers. I don’t think anyone can stop it,” Pengcheng Shi, associate dean of the department of computing and information sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, told the New York Post. Many specialists have pointed out vulnerable sectors.
However, Shi himself told the paper that as the use of IA advances, humans learn to deal with it better. That is, new uses open up within professional areas.
Which professional areas are at risk?
According to professors Pengcheng Shi and Chinmay Hegde, sectors such as journalism, education, design and software should see professionals complemented by the use of AI. See how he sees each of the areas.
Education
For Shi, ChatGPT “can now easily teach”. Experts believe that the tool be most effective in high school, as classes reinforce skills already developed in elementary school.
“Although it has bugs and inaccuracies in terms of knowledge, this can be easily improved. Basically, you just need to train ChatGPT,” explains Shi.
finance
“I definitely think it will impact the business side, but even in an investment bank, people get hired after college and spend two, three years working like robots and doing Excel modeling — you can use AI to do that.” Shi explained. “Much, much faster.”
However, Shi believes that crucial financial and economic decisions will likely always be left to humans.
Software Engineering
Website designers and engineers responsible for less complex code are also at risk.
“I worry about these people. Now I can just ask ChatGPT to generate a website for me — any kind of person whose day-to-day job is to do this for me is no longer needed,” warns Hegde.
“Over time, probably today or the next three, five, 10 years, these software engineers, if their job is to know how to code… I don’t think they’re going to be widely needed,” warns Shi.
Journalism
The Guardian has already made the GPT software write an opinion piece in 2020. According to Hegde, the technology it is already quite skilled for tasks such as reducing texts or making titles.
On the other hand, the biggest weakness of Chat GPT is in fact checking. Controversial content is easily disseminated in the tool — therefore, reporters and editors are still essential for this type of journalistic work.
“You can ask them to do a rehearsal, to produce a story with quotes, but most of the time the quotes are just made up,” Hegde continued. “This is a known flaw in ChatGPT and we honestly don’t know how to fix it.”
