The six figure jobs artificial intelligence and ChatGPT could do in Australia

Next-generation artificial intelligence has the potential to replace white-collar workers, from well-paid doctors and management consultants to home tutors, experts say.

ChatGPT’s latest technology is more sophisticated than previous generations of AI, and can read thousands of pages of text and produce the kind of interesting and colorful summary that a human would.

College students could use it to write an essay instead of struggling to do the research themselves.

This new technology can provide answers to complex questions, receive instructions through voice commands, and write a report in the style of a particular human being.

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It has the potential to improve jobs where humans make a living writing reports, from six-figure-salary consultants hired by public service departments and large corporations to suburban general practitioners and home tutors teaching children.

Basic journalism is also under threat, with AI capable of compiling sports reports and condensing stock market movements into a readable summary.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, was co-founded by Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk and is financially backed by Microsoft.

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who is visiting Australia, said artificial intelligence has the potential to replace white-collar jobs, including in teaching and medicine.

“Artificial intelligence will help us teach children,” he told ABC 7.30 presenter Sarah Ferguson.

‘It will help us with access to healthcare workers, making healthcare more efficient.

“AI will affect not only blue-collar jobs but white-collar jobs as well.”

Gates said that AI could even do some of the work of doctors.

“He may tutor children and give medical advice, but he won’t match humans, not in the fullest sense of human personality,” he said.

General practitioners in 2019-20 had an average taxable salary of $175,731 and are in short supply, particularly in regional areas, as Australia is dependent on immigration for qualified professionals.

Artificial intelligence could potentially be used to fill skills shortages, with Australia’s December unemployment rate remaining at a 48-year low of 3.5 percent.

But Emeritus Professor Roy Green, a special adviser on innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, said there was a danger that AI could be misused as jobs were replaced.

“That puts a big emphasis on how we train our workforce and how we adapt to those new technologies to become the masters of the technology, not the servants,” he told Daily Mail Australia.

“We will see new jobs emerge, but they will be very different from anything we have seen in the past, in association with the disappearance of other jobs.”

Daniel Angus, professor of digital communication at Queensland University of Technology, said ChatGPT could save taxpayers money by doing the work of expensive private sector consultants.

The SEEK jobs website puts the median salary for such outside consultants at $125,000.

‘Again, the bulls*** jobs, jobs they basically get paid to get into, take a bunch of existing text online, from public sources, and distill it into a digestible executive summary or report, that’s paramount to being outsourced to one of these approaches,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

“That’s the kind of thing where these technologies will certainly have a role in the future.”

Professor Angus said AI could also do the job of journalists writing routine reports.

“If you want to write sports reporting the way sports reporting is…a little, shall we say, quirkier, has a few more woody anecdotes sprinkled in, the GPT approach might be able to do that with more sophistication than previous models. ‘, said.

Existing artificial intelligence technology can already compile sports scores and summarize stock market movements for a business reporter.

ChatGPT could go a step further and write political stories, which are often based on press releases from ministers and members of parliament.

“A lot of what passes for journalism is really just passing off facts – that’s not something that necessarily requires a great deal of analytical knowledge,” Professor Angus said.

Professor Angus said ChatGPT technology was more likely to complement existing work, rather than replace it entirely, comparing the technology to the modern calculator that adds numbers.

“There’s been a moral panic raging around him, and he’s got everyone talking,” he said.

‘New jobs could also be created from this.

‘With the moral panic that arises around any new technology, people are worried about ‘this work will be outsourced’ or ‘this work will not exist’. lost) – the jobs that really shouldn’t exist.’

Despite the potential of the new AI, retired judges will still be required to conduct legal research.

“The person who is the author has an idea of ​​the lived experience: 30 years as a judge within the judicial system and drawing on that experience, there is a difference,” said Professor Angus.

Journalists would also be needed to interview witnesses at the crime scene.

“You can’t locate a whistleblower or go to the site of a particular incident and start asking questions,” Professor Angus said.