Chatbots are coming on your job.
A recent research paper found that the development of ChatGPT, a surprisingly smart chatbot launched in November, could have an impact on their careers.
Researchers at OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania argued wa recent scientific article that the introduction of ChatGPT could affect at the very least 10 percent of job tasks for 80 percent of the U.S. workforce.
Additionally they found that about 19 percent of employees could say that at the very least 50 percent of their duties were affected by GPT or general purpose technologies.
The researchers also found that higher-income jobs are likely to be more likely to be affected by the GPT, but nearly all industries can be affected.
The article analyzes the “exposure” of work tasks to AI “without distinguishing between the effects of increasing the workforce and the effects of displacing it.”
For the study, the researchers defined “exposure” as a measure of whether access to a GPT or GPT-based system would cut back the time it takes an individual to complete a task by at the very least 50 percent.
The researchers stressed that exposure doesn’t mean that GPT will fully automate tasks, but that the technology could save staff “a major amount of time to complete a big part of their tasks.”
The study found that mathematicians, interpreters, accountants, legal secretaries, writers and authors are some of the occupations that have the highest levels of exposure.
At the other end of the spectrum, more low-paying occupations comparable to railroad maintenance staff, cooks, machinists, floorlayers, meat packers and stonecutters weren’t affected.
Open AI researcher Pamela Mishkin highlighted the research in a Twitter thread, writing: “Today’s GPTs can do rather a lot. Over the past few years, we have seen them recover at solving increasingly complex tasks with fewer and fewer examples of less related tasks.”
She added: “The article looks at this trend, not any specific model currently available.”