“ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a chatbot developed by the American company OpenAI, was released on November 30, 2022. Within a few months, it became a global sensation and its powerful features shook the business and academic worlds. It is a revolutionary AI product that is changing the future of operating models and lifestyles.
However, that is not the most shocking part! In February of this year, at a conference of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Matt Welsh, a former computer science professor at Harvard University and former senior engineering manager at Google, said that the emergence of ChatGPT heralds the beginning of the end of the programming profession.”
According to a survey by career consulting platform ResumeBuilder.com of 1,000 American business leaders, 48% of companies using ChatGPT said that the AI had replaced employees, and 93% of respondents said they planned to expand their use of ChatGPT.
This is just the beginning. As new versions are released at an increasingly rapid pace, ChatGPT will become more mature, and that will be the era of reshuffling job positions across industries.
the large-scale commercialization of generative AI represented by ChatGPT in the short term and its comprehensive penetration into various industries greatly improving productivity and efficiency, it will also have an impact on the job market, and middle- to low-end positions in professions such as copywriting, journalism, translation, accounting, law, teaching, programming, and artistic creation will be affected.
ChatGPT marks the core technology of artificial intelligence in the current technological revolution, which will greatly improve productivity. In the future, the combination of AI technology with vertical scenarios and specific products will undergo a qualitative change and will change the entire society.
The advent of the AI era and the end of the programmer’s job means the popularization of coding as a tool, like operating office software, rather than a specialized skill. Anyone can convey their ideas to tools like ChatGPT and get what they want. This change may be like the popularization of English as a basic tool, which became necessary for simple work such as communicating with foreigners, sending emails, and reading contracts. However, specialized translation work still requires professional English language skills.
The emergence of AI programming may not be good news for some people (such as computer science students), but for most people, it marks the beginning of a more convenient era. As Matt Welsh suggested, let robots do the bad coding and spend time on more meaningful work.
In short, it is unnecessary to worry too much, but it is important to be prepared for the future.