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Topics: Bill Gates, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Microsoft, Jobs
Dan Seddon
Topics: Bill Gates, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Microsoft, Jobs
Artificial intelligence is going to render billions of workers irrelevant except for three jobs, according to Bill Gates.
Launched three years ago, everybody's favourite chatbot, ChatGPT, marked a new dawn for technology, as our burning questions could be answered in detail within seconds.
Naturally, though, this seismic shift in AI capabilities has added new anxieties to most workforces, with people everywhere concerned about a robotic future in which we, walking, talking flesh bags, are no longer needed to complete tasks or run industries, and studies have already looked into which professions could be on the chopping block.
In response, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reportedly warned that many jobs will, in fact, become obsolete as tech gradually becomes ingrained in society.
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The entire population won't be affected, oh no, because there are three jobs he had in mind that are completely safe from an AI takeover.
Despite AI being able to successfully generate code, at the time of writing, it's far from nailed down. People still need to monitor it, fix mistakes and bugs, and design more advanced systems.
So there you have it, the scrutiny remains on AI as workers build and monitor... more AI. Poetry in motion, don't you think?
Currently ranked the 13th-richest person on Earth, Gates also name-dropped the energy sector as being too intricate for the androids to wrap their hands around at this moment in time.
Nuclear, oil, and renewable energy businesses require complex strategies and expertise, which a fully automated format wouldn't handle well.
To manage the infrastructure, understand daily challenges, and innovate, there'll always be a job waiting for engineers, technicians and researchers in the energy department.
The biologists have lucked out, as AI cannot instigate scientific discovery, even though it's a priceless tool in the medical industry these days.
As a result, the experts are likely to continue using it for data analysis and disease diagnosis.
Having forecasted this triumvirate of safe zones, Gates admitted he could be wrong, yet the way this scarily impressive tech is used will likely reshape our lives in the same way the internet did not long ago.
And if by some miracle AI doesn't become a mainstay, we can all claim that we knew it was going to flop...