ChatGPT is known for being a human-like conversationalist. This dialogue format and the training it is backed by empower ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, challenge premises that might be incorrect, and reject requests that it feels are inappropriate. The key factor here is that ChatGPT is trained and not programmed to do what it does which makes it so much more human. So, what do you think, will ChatGPT take away your job?

Well, a decade ago, in 2013, a study by the University of Oxford found that about 47% of US jobs would be taken away by artificial intelligence in the coming two decades. Halfway through to that point, it doesn’t seem quite likely, and the prediction appears to be quite off the mark. But there are still ten years to go and we know how unpredictable are the times we live in. While millions of jobs may still not get replaced by artificial intelligence in this timeline, as we get more and more exposure to new emerging technologies like ChatGPT, some territory encroachment is bound to happen.

Anu Madgavkar, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute opines in this regard that human judgment will still need to be applied to these emerging technologies to avoid errors and bias. Tools like ChatGPT can be considered to be productivity-enhancing tools, and may not become complete replacements for all human efforts. In our opinion, ChatGPT does have the potential to disrupt not just blue-collar work but white-collar work as well.

Earlier in March, Infosys Founder – Narayana Murthy was speaking to the press on the sidelines of the NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum, where he said that in 1977-78, there was a thing called program generators. At that time, everybody said that the youngsters will now lose all their jobs. But we can see that this did not happen. The human mind is the most flexible instrument, he said, it can adapt very well. And all that happened was people start solving bigger and bigger problems, which these program generators could not handle. Murthy went on to say that we should use ChatGPT as a base and then show our creativity, show our smartness, and show our innovation.

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