Around the emerging ChatGPT, the discussion has been hot about its possible impact on human professional jobs. How will it affect the efficiency of business operations, employee productivity, and traditional occupational positions? Will advances in AI technology create new career opportunities? Where will there be employment opportunities and space for women?
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference AI Women Elite Forum held in 2023, the participating guests had a lively discussion on these issues.
## The advent of "digital twins" helped share the work
"A new technological revolution such as ChatGPT will certainly replace some familiar jobs, but it will also create many new opportunities." Yang Hua, director, deputy general manager and secretary of the board of directors of Yuncong Technology Group, said that at the beginning of each wave of technology iteration, there will always be panic, but eventually they will find that human beings are constantly breaking through themselves.
Indeed, some professional jobs will be taken away by the wave. Li Shuang, secretary of the party committee and deputy general manager of the Sino-Chile Economic and Technical Cooperation Company, believes that ChatGPT, which is good at processing a large amount of knowledge and data, will have a greater impact on those conventional logic positions, "If the decision-making time of a job is less than 5 seconds, then it is likely to be replaced by AI." She explained that this is because the amount of information required for this decision is small, the nature of the work is repetitive and simple, and it can be done independently, and the work with these characteristics is likely to be replaced by AI.
Chen Yunwen, chairman and CEO of Daguan Data, pointed out that work in finance, law, language and other related fields can reduce the burden on humans with the help of AI technology.
"AI has undoubtedly spawned some new jobs and careers." Liang Gebi, vice president of Microsoft Teams and SharePoint China, shared a case study: a product manager who could not write code took only seven days to generate an iOS conversation chat application through ChatGPT, which helped complete the front-end and back-end design, without the need for user designers and back-end engineers. She believes that this "one person is one business" phenomenon will redefine the role of software engineers and may even give rise to new professions. She also mentioned that she also has a "digital twin" that can replace herself in completing some of the work content, such as regular company introductions and communications.
"Repetitive, boring jobs may disappear, and AI promises to free up humans to do more creative, emotionally valuable and connected work." Yang Hua said.
## Innovative big language model jobs
Fueled by the AI wave, some employment opportunities that are more inclined to hire women have also surfaced. Chen Yunwen said that as just mentioned, jobs such as translation and finance can be fully combined with AI technology to give birth to some large language model jobs. "Around these positions, opportunities such as data mining, cleaning and collection will be open to women, and their patience and care can help better refine and summarize knowledge."
Yang Hua believes that instead of discussing whether machines will replace people, it is better to explore ways for humans and machines to live in harmony. She believes that the key to harmonious coexistence between humans and machines lies in connection, and humans can provide emotional value to machines, thereby generating more auxiliary work and making society warmer. "These jobs and people must have greater value. In general, women are better at dealing with emotions, have better communication skills, and are more capable of dealing with complex issues, and they can play a vital role in this. "
"When it comes to human-machine dialogue, women have stronger soft skills." Xu Lan, chief information officer of Michelin (China) Investment Co., Ltd. Asia Pacific, said that AI technology has made even technical positions less demanding of hard technical capabilities, and more emphasis on soft skills. "AI is not just a technology for scientists or high-tech companies, but a technology that can bring convenience to everyone."
"We need to steer AI for good, which includes gender equality and inclusion." Liu Jie, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said. "We need more women to participate in the development of AI, because AI is driven by algorithms, and increasing women's participation in the process of algorithm production can effectively avoid the gender bias of algorithms," said Chancellor Chatter, UN Resident Coordinator in China. "