Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to be one of the key developments of 2023 as tech honchos highlighted the positive impact of the technology across society. However, several C-suite executives, including OpenAI’s
Sam Altman
and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have hinted at job cuts, sugarcoating what’s to come.
Microsoft
CEO
Satya Nadella
has shared his take and just like his industry peers, he has also painted an optimistic picture, saying that there will be a reduction in jobs as we know but different types of jobs will be created that will require new sets of skills.
“There will be jobs, the question is the shape of these jobs. If anything, these tools can be very helpful with getting us the skills for what is the new set of tasks,” he said at London's Chatham House, a day before heading to Davos for the World Economic Forum.
“Everyone can become an expert in anything because they have an AI assistant,” he added.
His comments came soon after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that AI is set to affect nearly 40% of all jobs, with IMF's managing director
Kristalina Georgieva
adding that “in most scenarios, AI will likely worsen overall inequality”.
Nadella on use cases of AI
Nadella also said that generative AI products like ChatGPT should be welcomed as they disrupt how people get access to information.
“Let's face it, there’s a real aggregation power in a few places, right? Search is one. News feeds is another. Both of these things could be up for disruption,”
Nadella
said, adding that as a result, journalists and publishers “should welcome” generative AI, as per a report by Politico.
Recently, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against both OpenAI and Microsoft accusing the companies of copyright infringement. It said that the outlet’s journalistic content was used to train models underlying the ChatGPT AI chatbot.
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