With the whopping boom of artificial intelligence, several professionals may be wondering if AI could take their jobs soon.
Job Risk Due to AI Boom
This is a fair question to ask, considering how AI is designed to execute human capacities and automate human activities. A group of professors from NYU, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania wanted to delve deeper into the concern and shed light on AI-related job risk. Their study is entitled "How Will Language Modelers like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries?"
The paper is yet to be peer-reviewed. Nevertheless, the professors have generated interesting findings that may appear ominous for those whose professions are indeed at risk.
From Teachers to Telemarketers
Futurism reports that the researchers discovered that the top professions that are exposed to language modeling are telemarketers and several post-secondary teachers, including foreign language, English language and literature, and history instructors. They have also discovered that the top industries that are exposed to language modeling advancements are commodities, investments, and legal services and securities.
Moreover, as per the Daily Mail, school psychologists and judges are also put at risk by these technological advancements.
According to the researchers, teachers and financial service providers may be the first to give in to language modeling technologies, such as ChatGPT. It is important to note, however, that it is bad at offering factual data and math. Futurism reports that these faults probably do not make the bot ideal for teaching or delving into the world of finance.
The professors used an approach that was made in 2018. This specific model was made by gauging the job descriptions that had altered the most due to AI advancements from 2010 to 2015.
Rob Seamans, one of the study's authors from NYU, says that the key insight was for them to map out ten areas, where AI was booming, to 52 capabilities that are executed across jobs. The areas include speech recognition, language modeling, and image recognition, among others.
He also explained that the data could be cross-referenced with data from the Department of Labor to look into the prevalence and significance of such abilities across 800 occupations that are currently performed by humans.
Seamans notes that the results were an AI Occupational Exposure, or AIOE, score. Higher AIOE indicates higher chances for automation to take over.
The reason for the AIOE score could vary. Teachers, for instance, could have higher scores due to how AI language modeling may affect how educators delegate work, detect cheating, or use tools to come up with materials for teaching.
Kevin Bryan, who is an associate professor from the University of Toronto, was shocked by AI's capacities after he asked the tool to come up with exam answers. He mentioned that teachers can no longer issue homework, as per the Daily Mail.
The case is different, however, for telemarketers. The researchers noted that this was the occupation that had the highest likelihood of being taken over by AI. They noted that, though it may be compelling to have AI and humans collaborate, the dynamics of labor could lead to the replacement of humans. Several bosses have already started replacing the workforce with machines.
Mastercard, Spotify, Fandago, and Lyft are just a few businesses that refer customer queries to a chatbot.
The researchers note that the capacity of language modeling to take over human telemarketers shows an aspect of AIOE: exposure. The score gauges one's exposure to AI. However, whether this exposure may result in substitution or augmentation depends on occupational specifics.
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