The wheel of history rolls forward, and every time there is a big leap in productivity, it will cause a wave of unemployment. Back then, the appearance of the spinning machine made countless weavers in handicraft workshops unemployed. Today, under the catalysis of AI technology, the same thing is repeating itself in various fields of the Internet industry.
crazy wave of layoffs
"What AI can do in 15 seconds is better than what I hired a professional team to do for a month."
"The company will not support idlers, and those who have no demand in their hands will naturally be optimized."
The above are not jokes, but the real thoughts of many Internet companies. According to media reports, earlier this year, the founder of the well-known game publisher Xindong.com disclosed that as far as he knew, some game teams had cut off the original painting outsourcing team and replaced it with AI painting. And the director of a game art outsourcing team also confessed to the reporter: "The original team of 38 people, after having AI, has now laid off more than 20 people."
While many people still scoff at AI painting, it is already quietly changing the rules of the market. At the beginning, everyone thought that AI was not good at painting and could not handle the picture level well. These things can only be done by human painters. But after the latest plug-in called ControlNet comes out, AI can also handle the place decently, and can also adjust the details.
For enterprises, originally wanting to order a high-precision illustration, they needed to find a professional image company, which cost at least tens of thousands of yuan and several weeks; but now, they only need to provide a few keywords and spend a few In half a minute, AI can generate more than a dozen different pictures, which greatly reduces the cost. Therefore, a large number of companies use AI painting to meet product art needs, and redundant artists and painters will inevitably be squeezed out and eliminated by AI.
Which jobs will be replaced by AI
When it comes to jobs that will be replaced by AI in the future, many people’s first reaction will be cement workers, sanitation workers, delivery workers and other manual labor jobs, but the reality is that the most threatened by AI is currently mental workers.
The reason is simple. If AI wants to replace mental work, it only needs to solve software problems; but if it wants to replace slightly more complicated manual labor, it needs to solve both software problems and hardware problems. Although automatic pancake machines have been around for a long time, they have always failed to replace roadside pancake stands due to low efficiency and troublesome maintenance.
Here are some brain jobs that may be replaced by AI in the future.
1. Copywriting
A number of language models such as Chat-GPT can generate various styles of copywriting with one click according to user requirements, and the sentences are fluent, free of typos, and even have a certain literary quality, which can directly replace the role of copywriting posts. The following is an introduction to Zhenghou software training generated by Chat-GPT:
2. Customer service
With the blessing of the latest dialogue language model, the AI customer service that originally "does not understand human words" and "can only respond mechanically" will be swept into the garbage dump of history and replaced by a new AI customer service that is polite and humane . Compared with real customer service, AI customer service does not need to rest, and will not be affected by negative emotions of customers, so it has more advantages.
3. Big data analysis
Data is the most important asset in the information age, and data analysts are also very popular positions in enterprises. However, with the rise of intelligent analysis software, this position is also at risk of being replaced. AI intelligent analysis software can monitor data 24 hours a day, generate analysis reports in real time, and can complete most of the normal work independently, and the price is low. Therefore, more and more enterprises choose to subscribe to AI analysis services instead of hiring analysts.
What careers can remain competitive in the face of the threat of AI?
If we carefully analyze the positions that may be replaced by AI, we will find that although many positions belong to the category of mental work, they are actually subject to market demand, with relatively low autonomy and innovation and mostly repetitive work. In other words, the job itself is highly streamlined and has limited development prospects, so it will be threatened by AI. And the real technology cannot be copied by AI, for example: programmers.
Programmer is a real technical position. Although AI can also generate some simple codes, only programmers know the meaning of these codes and what effects they can achieve. Neither can be built. Therefore, AI can only become an auxiliary tool for programmers, and it is impossible to completely replace the role of programmers.
What's more, no matter how powerful AI is, it is designed by programmers and needs to be maintained by programmers. The continuous development of AI is inseparable from the support of countless programmers behind it. OpenAI's own official website is also recruiting programmers with a lot of money. It can be said that AI makes programmers more popular! At present, the IT industry has penetrated into various industries such as medicine, finance, tourism, entertainment, etc. Xiao Hou boldly predicts that the next ten years will be the era of AI and the era of programmers.
If you want to enter the IT industry, it is best to start now, participate in systematic offline training, master a skill, and embark on the fast track of career development.