The creators of recent AI phenomenon, ChatGPT, have co-authored a research paper looking into the impact of large language models (LLMs) on the labour market. It highlights the expected impact of these generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models on different, specific occupations, and even gives a list of the jobs it has zero impact on.
So, if you're lucky, talented, or dedicated enough to be a professional athlete your job's safe. Until they give the AI legs as well as language. What? You mean they've already got legs? Holy shit, we're all toast.
In all there are 34 different occupations that are listed as having no exposure—that's the paper's metric for the impact of LLMs—but it also states that 80% of the US workforce will see some impact on their roles.
The paper, titled "GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models(opens in new tab)" (graph-filled PDF warning) is co-authored by OpenAI, OpenResearch, and the University of Pennsylvania. So, if we're honest we're going to have to take its findings with a modicum of salt given how much skin the authors have in the LLM game.
But if you want to be confident of resisting the AI revolution then you're going to want to be retraining for one of these occupations:
They're all pretty self explanatory, and mostly based on skilled manual labour. Though I'm a little concerned about just how much effort was put into this research as it mentions the occupation of 'dishwashers' is going to be fine. I mean, if we're honest, AI hasn't got a lot to do with replacing human dishwashers, those mechanical dishwashers are doing pretty well at that right now.
But if you don't want to be royally screwed by future LLMs then you will need to
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