“This will change our world.”
That’s Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ assessment of ChatGPT, a chatbot that gives strikingly human-like responses to user queries. Developed by San Francisco-based OpenAI and backed by Microsoft, it can collate information in seconds that would otherwise take hours to gather.
“Until now, artificial intelligence could read and write, but could not understand the content,” Gates said recently. “The new programs like ChatGPT will make many office jobs more efficient by helping to write invoices or letters.”
Those efficiencies will inevitably lead to job losses.
If you’re working as a cashier, customer service representative or bookkeeper, you might want to have a backup plan, because a