New and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) could soon start to make a major impact on many industries around the world, though the effects of AI were previously underestimated. According to a recent research paper written by researchers from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania, 80 percent of workers in the US could see 10 percent of their work duties impacted by the introduction of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that made its stunning debut in November.
The research also states that around 19 percent of workers may have at least half of their duties impacted by general-purpose technologies. The exposure of work tasks to AI doesn’t reveal whether that impact will aid or displace labor, but rather suggests that any amount of exposure can save a significant amount of time for workers to complete their tasks.
Mathematicians, interpreters, accountants, legal secretaries, writers and authors are among the jobs with the greatest levels of exposure to AI, while lower paying jobs such as rail maintenance workers, cooks, mechanics, floor-layers, meat-packers and stonemasons have almost no exposure. Pamela Mishkin, an Open AI researcher, shared the paper in a recent Twitter thread and mentioned that AI has become more and more accurate with fewer and fewer examples of related tasks over the years.
OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research organization focused on machine learning. Founded in 2015, their mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. They strive to achieve this goal by developing and applying cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to solve challenges across science and industry.
Pamela Mishkin is a former postdoctoral fellow at OpenAI and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Her research focuses on theoretical machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is passionate about applying AI to real-world problems and working on important policy issues surrounding the technology. Pamela has contributed to numerous workshops and conferences, and her research has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals.
