Is Artificial Intelligence beating Natural Stupidity - AI is taking over many jobs. Are you at risk?
Plus: Experts take on how you can stay competitive
Ola Amigos. Welcome to another edition of Kommunicate Korner, where we talk about the latest and greatest in the world of AI. We answer the big question in this edition of the newsletter - how AI is slowly, but surely, taking over some of the jobs that previously needed some form of human input. So read on to find out if your job is at stake, and what you need to be wary of..
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AI and Astronomy: Looks like they are going far
Ever wondered how the pretty pictures from the Hubble Space telescope are so crystal clear? Like what kind of cameras are they using up there to get to THAT quality?
The pic above is AI removing the blurs on an image taken from ground-based telescopes, taking into account earth’s atmospheric interference and other factors.
?Astronomy has had a long tradition of sifting through massive amounts of data, trying to connect seemingly disparate dots and making accidental discoveries in the process. This is where AI is stepping in.
Astronomers have been using AI for data processing and pruning out useless bits of images, a task that previously took huge manual effort. The famous image of the M87 supermassive black hole, known as M87*, was taken by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).?
The “cleaned up” image was released to the public in 2023, and the results were startling. What astonished astronomers was the amazing accuracy with which the image matched the predictions of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general relativity theory.
Neural networks, another important subset of AI, is helping cosmologists understand the very nature of the universe. This is the same neural networks that companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic use to train their LLMs. Using sophisticated computer simulations, cosmologists generate training data and then vary the properties of dark matter and dark energy, elements that make up more than 95% of the known universe.
Looks like AI and astronomers will have an exciting future ahead. And while we may need lesser citizen scientists to sift through data, what we can truly expect is AI helping us understand where we came from.
As to where we are going? Well, looks like lesser support staff, in the near future. Let us see what is going on there.
Now you C me…Now you don’t. Customer Support jobs that are disappearing like ice cones on a hot summer day….
If you are working in customer support, we have some good news and bad news for you..
The good news first. Looks like you are going to have a lot of free time to address customer queries in the future. Complex use cases, tricky customers, and difficult product fixes. You will have more time to handle all these issues in the coming months and years.
The bad news?
You may not have a job if the kind of issues you solve are simple, rule based fixes. Sooner or later, an AI entity will take over your job, leaving you with even more time (a little.. Too much time, if we may).
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And we are not talking about a distant future here. We are talking now!!
Suumit Shah , CEO of Dukaan.com , drew a lot of flak recently when he announced that he was letting go of 90% of his support staff and replacing them with a chatbot.
In an X post that has since gone viral, Suumit said that replacing the support staff was not due to advancements in AI, but because funding was running dry (that actually rhymes..but let's not get distracted.)
The results have been impressive for Dukaan, to say the least. Here are the stats:
Now, if you are in customer support, it may be time to polish up your AI skills. Or dust off your resume. As Albus Dumbledore famously tells Harry Potter… “Just in Case.”?
#include <jobatrisk.io> Your programming job maybe the one that AI is coming after
You knew this day would come ever since you wrote your first <Hello World> program.
There have been murmurs, and a lot of noise on the internet, that things will soon fall apart.
A piece of technology, from the near future, will make you obsolete, and you will soon face the risk of “termination.”
This is not a scenario from a bad dystopian future or science fiction, but it is as real as it gets. ChatGPT is coming for you, dear programmers.
According to a report by Semafor, OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, has hired hundreds of contractors with the sole purpose of making basic coding jobs obsolete. These contractors come from varied locations including Eastern Europe and Latin America, and have been tasked with helping AI learn simple programming tasks.
Many experts say that tools like ChatGPT will only aid developers write code faster and work more efficiently, but that hasn’t stopped the doomsday predictions.
Videos like this one on Youtube say that ChatGPT may one day replace programmers completely, but, at the moment, programmers are safe.
So #include<jobissafe.h> at the moment.. But the timer is approaching zero, slowly.
What the Experts say…
Arvind Krishna , CEO of IBM, had this to say when reporters asked him if he intends to replace programmers with AI, the answer was a resounding NO!
“I don’t intend to get rid of a single one. I will get more,” said Krishna, at the Fortune’s CEO Initiative conference held recently. Krishna also added that AI could take over 20%- 30% of “lower level” tasks, but it was highly unlikely that AI will take away someone’s job entirely.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella was also echoing Arvind Krishna’s thoughts, when he expected “to displace a few jobs, it will also create a lot more new ones.”
When we talk about AI replacing jobs, we can’t help but agree with Satya here. AI will surely replace you if your job is repetitive and does not involve a lot of critical thinking. But if you are a creative, or a gifted programmer, or even a savvy salesman who can close any deal, then no AI or any other piece of technology will replace you.
Ever.
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