ChatGPT has just celebrated its second birthday. OpenAI’s conversational chatbot certainly isn’t the only big player in artificial intelligence, but its arrival heralded the era of hype of this technology. That said, some of the noise has died down recently. AI companies are dealing with many issues, including training costs and a growing consensus that building bigger AI models may follow the law of diminishing returns. As such, some of the panic that AI would lead to mass unemployment has also dampened down.
Nonetheless, there are some jobs that AI is uniquely suited to replacing. It’s not going to happen overnight, but we can pick some roles where there is already evidence of a shift to AI. Again, though, there is no need to panic, as many of the human possessors of these roles will simply adapt, much the same way as the modern office employee adapted when the PC …