At one time, no one had ever heard of a telegraph operator. An electrician. Auto mechanic. TV producer. X-ray technician. Software developer. Webmaster. Cybersecurity specialist.<\/p>\n
Advancements in technology have always spawned new kinds of jobs while rendering other ones obsolete. Artificial intelligence will be no exception. Right now, we don\u2019t fully know what those jobs will be. But that hasn\u2019t stopped job seekers from trying to find out.<\/p>\n
Prognosticators say\u00a0artificial intelligence\u00a0will likely have a similar impact on the labor market \u2014 and workers want to get in on the ground floor. But it\u2019s clear that even employers don\u2019t know what those jobs are. Not yet, at least.<\/p>\n
To be clear, automation and, to a certain extent, AI have been part of the labor market for quite some time. Who among us hasn\u2019t had an infuriating exchange with a chatbot? But interest in employment related to AI has skyrocketed in the past two years. Searches for AI-related jobs on the employment listings website Indeed have increased 8,200% since March 2021, according to the company. But AI-related job postings by employers have only increased 29.8%.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it captures that kind of moment that we\u2019re in right now where there are a lot of new possibilities opening up and there\u2019s a lot of uncertainty about where it\u2019s going,\u201d says Trey Causey, head of AI ethics at Indeed. But, he adds, \u201cThe interest is undeniable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also see: <\/strong>Investing in artificial intelligence: The good, the bad and the ugly of AI<\/p>\n Indeed isn\u2019t the only site seeing more searches geared toward AI. Daniel Zhao, lead economist at the job search website Glassdoor, has also seen an uptick, which he says is driven largely by the novelty aspect of AI and the possibilities it holds for workers.<\/p>\n \u201cAI is poised to have a significant impact on the job market, and it doesn\u2019t require being a Ph.D. in computer science in order to actually work at a company that is taking advantage of AI,\u201d says Zhao. \u201cSo there are definitely opportunities out there for people who are interested in this space and who feel passionately about the technology.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s no wonder workers are beginning to test the waters of AI, since recent studies have shown that most jobs will likely be impacted by the technology. And that\u2019s pretty much what most workers are counting on. A March 26 report by the investment banking company Goldman Sachs A \u201cmajor\u201d impact on work was also asserted in a March 22 report by the IT consulting company Accenture It\u2019s probable that certain jobs will be replaced entirely by AI, but it will largely depend on what functions can be replaced. Goldman Sachs finds that jobs in which 50% of the work could be automated are more likely to be supplanted by AI. For example, jobs that require physical labor or care are unlikely to be replaced, while jobs that require coding or number-crunching are less likely to need human operators.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t fear the robot takeover just yet. The Goldman Sachs report from March also asserted that any displacement caused by AI would likely be offset by the creation of new occupations, which usually happens in the labor market during periods of technological change.<\/p>\n Plus:<\/strong> These 3 trends will power the future of artificial intelligence<\/p>\n Employers want to incorporate AI into their workplaces even if they\u2019re not quite sure how. The World Economic Forum\u2019s \u201cThe Future of Jobs Report 2023\u201d released on April 30 found 75% of companies surveyed expect to adopt AI. And a roundup of first-quarter earnings calls for S&P 500 companies by the financial news company Bloomberg found 1,072 mentions of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n It does seem like\u00a0employers are figuring it out\u00a0already. Among job postings, there are now positions specifically with AI in the title or, at least, include AI within the job description. As of this writing, there were about 25,000 jobs on Indeed.com with a search for \u201cartificial intelligence.\u201d There were more than 14,000 on Glassdoor.<\/p>\n Most workers are searching broadly for specific AI engineering skills and AI model-specific skills, says Causey. But what employers are including in job posts can be broken down into three main categories, Causey says:<\/p>\nWorkers want to ride the next job wave<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\n It said generative AI \u2014 as in,\u00a0language-learning models like ChatGPT\u00a0\u2014 is set to \u201cfundamentally transform everything from science to business to health care, for instance, to society itself.\u201d It also argues that AI has the potential to reinvent every role in every company as \u201chumans working with AI co-pilots becomes the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n
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