Can ChatGPT do your job better than you can, with just a few prompts? Could any person with half a brain teach it how to do that? If so, then here’s some scary news for you: it might just make you redundant.
If you’ve sat down and played around with ChatGPT for more than a few hours, you’ll have seen the massive power and what-if capabilities that this generative AI performs in just a few seconds. And if you’ve ever tried Googling something for 20 minutes only to just find ads, when Bing now gives you the answers in a second, you’ll be blown away. In fact, with so much AI is capable of, it’s left people worldwide shaking in their boots: “Will ChatGPT take my job?”
The writers of the world are torn
Technology can be a blessing as much as it can be a bane. Which is why the question that’s on every content writer and copywriter’s mind is: Will ChatGPT take my job? And who better to answer this question than Simon Li who is Editor-in-Chief at NoDepositFan:
‘Well, let’s be honest, it’s a justifiable concern because truly skilled writers are passionate about their craft and the prospect of being replaced by a chatbot is rather bleak. Unfortunately, it’s not a question that can be given a black-and-white answer.
However, I will say this: as great as this AI tool is, it can never substitute the human element in a person’s writing. That’s certainly something that cannot be easily replaced, nor will it be in the near or, probably distant future. Rather than being fearful for our jobs, the better question to be asked is: ‘How Can ChatGPT help me improve my writing?’ Once this is established, then we’ve cracked this code, and we’ll be on our way to writing even more refined content at a more efficient pace.’
As are the programmers
If you head over to some of the subreddits on the matter, such as /r/singularity, you’ll find people actively telling others to give up their developer and AI studies and just “enjoy their lives.” For the advise-givers, they believe that these types of knowledge workers are also on the way out.
However, for bread-and-butter programmers, many have been taking both ChatGPT and Github Copilot for a spin, helping them to achieve far more efficiency at work. For some, they report upwards of 80%.
Do you still need to know how to code to be able to guide ChatGPT? Sure. But we’re only at the beginning of the release of this tech in the wild. Who knows where it will go from here?
And the counselors
Have you tried using ChatGPT as a counselor yet? The demand for psychological help services has exploded, particularly during and post-Covid, and provider waitlists stretch out infinitely. Now that ChatGPT is online, many people are experimenting with using AI as a counseling tool.
In one example, an author speaks of feeding no less than 10 years of journaling to GPT3, then using it as a tool for therapy and coaching. At a cost of cents on the dollar rather than hundreds of dollars, it’s certainly a tool that can be used by a wider audience, even if it doesn’t always give the best advice.
And other roles in all industries…
From business consultants to strategists, designers to accountants, there are people worried about whether ChatGPT will make their job redundant. ChatGPT is capable of “thinking up” anything that a human has thought up already or drawn connections between, or done, that’s drawn from the online public realm.
ChatGPT and the coming Google AI (and others) will see us increase productivity immeasurably across all industries. And if you weren’t very good at your job, to begin with, and can’t master the art of good prompting then you’re likely to get left in the dust.
How can I protect my future earning capabilities?
Humans will always be the ones working the machines – hopefully! And one thing about people is that we crave human interaction. A smile can make our day. A touching word from someone can make us truly think. Professions and roles that are heavy on human relationships and real-life interaction will be the ones that AI can’t effectively do. While you might think ‘waitstaff’ or ‘cleaner’, what you are missing is a chiropractor or landscaper.
It’s not too late to retrain or align with a second role that steps out of the knowledge worker space and into something a little more human and hands-on. While some professions will shrink to a smaller pool and day-to-day roles and processes change, others will grow and mutate, too.
Or there’ll be Universal Basic Income while the machines run everything. Or a machine uprising where the humans don’t end up making it. Who’s really to know? Elon, can we go to Mars, yet?
