Until now, using Photoshop, real-looking fake photos could be created, but it took hours of hard work. Now, this can be done in just a second. Putting a smile on your face. Click one button and it’s done. Changing your hairstyle. With one click, your hair becomes shorter. With one click, your hair becomes longer. These fake photos look very real. You can even expand your photos outside the borders. I can use my voice to speak another language with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Companies like Marvel are using AI to create animations for their TV shows and movies. Companies like Amazon say that they will use AI to write books and then sell them on their website. It is unimaginable what AI is already capable of. Automatically replying to emails, writing emails for you, helping you in your studies, helping you with your work, giving you health advice, working as your virtual assistant. The possibilities are endless. We are witnessing a new global revolution.
ChatGPT is an AI software which is called Large Language Model, LLM.
The special thing about it is that it can imitate the way humans speak very well. The style in which humans talk to each other, our way of using language on phones, internet, computers, It was trained on that and now it can speak to us in the same style. ChatGPT has been made by an American company named OpenAI and its popularity rocketed so quickly that it became the world’s fastest growing online service.
- It took Netflix 3.5 years to reach 1 million users.
- Twitter took 2 years.
- Facebook took 10 months.
- Instagram took 2.5 months.
- And ChatGPT reached this milestone in just 5 days.
Its version 3.5 is free to use. You just have to create an account. On the website of OpenAI.
Big companies saw it and launched their own AI chatbots. In response to the ChatGPT
- Google launched its Google Bard.
- Microsoft launched its Bing AI,
- even though OpenAI and Microsoft are in a partnership.
- Snapchat launched its MyAI.
Apart from this, many companies, whether it’s Quora, Duolingo, or Air India, have already incorporated AI into their systems or have announced that they are going to do it soon. “Musk and hundreds of influential names including Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, are calling for a pause in experiments. Saying AI poses a dramatic risk to society unless there is proper oversight.” Then many people will lose their jobs.
In history, whenever a new technology was introduced, it has definitely had an impact on the job market, some examples below..
- When smartphones were introduced,the jobs of landline telephone operators were all gone.
- When cars came, the jobs of people who drove horse carriages were almost finished.
- When ATMs came, the jobs of bank tellers in banks,
- Who used to facilitate your cash transactions, demand for those jobs declined drastically.
- Similarly, due to the advent of online websites, jobs of booking clerks have gone down. Due to the advent of industrial robots, assembly line workers lost their jobs.
Danger of Artificial Intelligence is much bigger than all these technologies.
- First is that the effect of AI technology will not be limited to a single sector. In fact, it will be seen in every field. It has happened for the first time that creative people’s jobs are at risk. People used to think that as technology improves, the most mechanical jobs, the jobs that required the most repeated work, will be the first to go. No one thought that creative jobs like graphic designers can also disappear.
- Jobs of logo designers and musicians can be at risk. AI software like Mid journey and Stable Diffusion can generate images for you and create logos and graphics in minutes. If we talk about music, look at Google’s music model. You just have to write in the text that you want to listen to the song ‘Bella Ciao’ only on guitar. Or you can say that you want to listen to this song using only drums and flute or a chorus of this song’s tune or only on a piano you just have to write what kind of music you want and you will get it.
- The second reason is this. AI’s impact is going to be huge and rapid. Whichever sector will be impacted by it, millions of jobs will be wiped out. but there is good news too.
The good news is that if old jobs are wiped out, new jobs will emerge.
According to World Economic Forum’s the Future of Jobs Report 2020 by 2025, 85 million jobs will be wiped out due to AI all over the world. But the same report states that with the help of AI, 97 million new jobs will be created in this time frame.
AI is not a job killer but a job category killer.
You might ask, what will be the emerging jobs? In all the new jobs that will be created here, Artificial Intelligence skills will be needed. For example, on one hand, a graphic designer may lose his job, where he doesn’t need to make logos anymore. On the other hand, we’ll need a person who can give instructions to AI on how to make logos. A person will still be needed to be able to tell AI what to incorporate in the logo. Then, to modify or change AI’s output, a new person will be needed. That’s why there is another saying here.
“If you want a job, you should have basic knowledge of AI.“
Like, if you want a job today, you need to have basic knowledge of computers. These statistics are a big wake-up call for the entire country. Will our students be trained on time in schools and colleges? After the job market, the next big impact of Artificial Intelligence will be on our education system.
Do you remember, at one time, teachers used to say that you should not use calculators while doing maths because you won’t have a calculator with you always. But technology has changed so much and so quickly that not only do we always have calculators with us, but we also have smartphones that have powers like a computer and now, AI will also be available to us. When ChatGPT started becoming popular initially, the very first use case by students was to cheat for their homework. You will find news articles from all over the world, on how ChatGPT was used to complete school assignments. Which, I believe, is a very stupid use of ChatGPT. If you are a student, you should understand that in the short term, you can cheat in your homework assignments but in the long term, when you move on in life the skills that you are expected to learn you will have to learn to use those skills yourself. Moving forward, to become successful in life learning and adapting will be the 2 most important aspects. There are many other ways to use AIs like ChatGPT in the education system.
Conclusion
Being updated and adapting to new things will help you in life. In today’s rapidly changing world, it is more important than ever to be able to learn new things and to embrace new technologies. AI is just one example of a new technology that is having a major impact on the world. By staying up-to-date on AI developments and learning how to use it effectively, we can position ourselves to succeed in the future.
