Thursday, June 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence - Who will Lose their Jobs ?


On May 24, 2023, some Chinese publication dealt with the consequences large-scale implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) would have on different groups of employees. However things are more complicated and far-reaching to be discussed in the frame of a single blogspot. So let me just quote some basic ideas extracted from that publication.


Within Ten Years, Two Types of People Won't be Replaced


自2月份ChatGPT发布以来,几乎每天一个重磅炸单,一会儿接入微软全家桶,一会儿对接第三方应用插件,最新的重磅是解除封印可以联网。

Since the release of ChatGPT in February, there has been a blockbuster order almost every day, connecting to the Microsoft family bucket for a while, and connecting to third-party application plug-ins for a while. The latest blockbuster is to unseal and connect to the Internet.

ChatGPT的功能很多,包括程序语言转换、故事创作、代码、头脑风暴、RE文本情绪分析、广告设计等49个。概括起来有7大应用场景:应用和布局、搜索和数据分析、程序生成和分析、文本生成、内容创作、一般推理和其他。

ChatGPT has many functions, including 49 functions in the fields of program language conversion, story creation, code, brainstorming, RE text sentiment analysis, and advertisement design. In summary, there are 7 major application scenarios: application and layout, search and data analysis, program generation and analysis, text generation, content creation, general reasoning and others.


In order to survive in the times of AI, it becomes essential to master three digital capabilities: knowledge, creation, operation on the job.
First, the ability to acquire all kinds of knowledge you never imagined before you might need.
Second, the ability to create works, including text, images, audio codes, and more.
Third, empower operational capabilities. AI can generate various processes, designs, business plans, and marketing collaboration processes. That demands you to use AI in order to make business proceedings running more smoothly in your daily routine.

任正非说,未来只有两种人,一种是熟练使用AI工具的人,另一种是可以生产AI工具的人。

Ren Zhengfei
[the founder of HUAWEI] said that there will be only two types of people in the future, one is those who are proficient in using AI tools, and the other is those who can produce AI tools.

After the emergence of AI, many human positions, departments, and industries have been eliminated at once. But compared to AI, humans still have some comparative advantages in skills showing up in three fundamental abilities. From there, three categories of working positions can be described as follows :
The first category is dexterity work which requires manual precision work together with expert knowledge. Precision surgery or arts and crafts could serve as an example.
The second category is creative work. Such work cannot be fully standardized.
The third category is work that requires empathy. You might say that current machines also have empathy, such as intelligent care robots for the elderly, comfort robots, robot girlfriends, and so on. But at present, the gap between robot 'ethics' and human empathy is still very large.

这三类岗位目前是比较安枕无忧的。如果不属于这三类,只要掌握前面说的三种数字能力,或者迅速成为两种专业人士中的一种,依然可以与时俱进。

These three types of [working] positions are currently relatively safe and secure. If you do not belong to these three categories, as long as you master the three digital capabilities mentioned above, or quickly become one of the two types of professionals
[mentioned by Ren Zhengfei], you can still keep pace with the times.

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