Could ChatGPT or other AI-powered technology be coming for your job, employees, and small business?
Humans have feared job loss due to technology for at least 200 years, when Luddites famously started smashing machines. But these were fears for unskilled jobs. Now, AI machines like ChatGPT may be coming for highly skilled labor.
ChatGPT can scan loads of public information, which is filtered through various algorithms and other tools that allow the program to craft human-like responses and analysis. The latter is one of the breakthroughs that could replace people who analyze, write, sell, talk and teach things.
Some researchers think AI could eliminate up to 80 percent of jobs in the not-so-distant future. Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum's "The Future of Jobs Report 2020" believes AI will cost 85 million jobs by 2025. Of course, fears of tech-driven job loss, globalization, and other threats have been around for a long time. While some people have certainly lost out, the long-foretold job-pocalypses have yet to materialize.