ChatGPT is Disrupting these Industries, according to ChatGPT
From the mouth of the beast itself
I first used ChatGPT back in November 2022 when it just came out.
At the time I just happened to be doing research on AI article writers that had been around for a while — Copy.ai, WriteSonic and Jasper — because I was looking into how they could help me be more efficient in writing (long stort short, I found AI writers can definitely help but they have difficulty sounding ‘natural’ or conversational).
ChatGPT blew me away. It was just as good as the paid services, and in some instances better, but it was entirely free to use (for now). Uh-oh, I thought to myself, this’ll be big, but even I wasn’t expecting the AI arms-race that ensued over the course of the three short months that followed.
Microsoft bought OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT for $10billion(!!), much to the dismay of Google who recently purchased AI company Anthropic for $300m. Apple, Meta, Amazon and Nvidia have also invested into AI, so clearly this is a sign of things to come.
Now everyone knows about ChatGPT, which means the writing jobs I could’ve gone for before November now know how good AI writing is and how much more content a writer can push out using it. Buzzfeed came out and said they’d use ChatGPT to help create content, so the landscape for writers has definitely changed, and it’s changed quick.
But this is the thing about life.
We evolve by adapting to changing situations, and the only constant in life is change, and we must adapt to survive.
This is an example. Humans are constantly creating ways to make their lives easier, and that’s how society progresses — by reducing/automating the processes we have to perform in order to survive.
Writing isn’t the only industry that’s been disrupted by ChatGPT though. I sat down and started listing the arenas in which AI is f*cking things up (not necessarily in a bad way, just changing them from how they were before), and then I realised I could ask ChatGPT.
So here are the industries ChatGPT itself said it was f*cking (and I quote):
- Customer service and support: ChatGPT and other language models can automate and improve various customer support tasks such as answering frequently asked questions, providing product recommendations, and resolving customer complaints.
- Healthcare: AI language models are being used to assist healthcare professionals in tasks such as medical diagnosis, treatment planning, and drug discovery.
- Finance: AI language models are being used to analyse financial data and generate reports, as well as provide personalized financial advice.
- Education: AI language models are being used to create personalized learning experiences, automate grading and feedback, and generate educational content.
- Marketing and advertising: AI language models are being used to create targeted advertisements, generate creative content, and analyse consumer behaviour.
- Law and justice: AI language models are being used to assist in legal research, document analysis, and contract review.
From the mouth of the beast itself, and there are some very societally-integral industries in there.
Law, for example — a judge in Colombia said he used ChatGPT to assist in his judgement. Finance — AI could define your credit score and therefore if you’re eligible for a loan or not. Healthcare — AI can help identify diseases. Education — ChatGPT has most recently almost made homework redundant, oh how I wait to see how teachers fight back against that.
AI is looking like it could become pretty integrated into the fabric of society itself, just as we’ve integrated the entire way we live onto computers and the internet (work, phones, cars, factories, you name it).
These aren’t the only industries being disrupted by AI. Here are the ones I came up with after spending 2 minutes thinking about it:
- Writers: there might be less need for online content creators when AI can pump out content 50x faster. Also existing paid AI content creation services — they might struggle when ChatGPT does the same thing for free.
- Coders: ChatGPT can write code in seconds. It used to take me hours to write a bit of JS for my site.
- Search Engines: Google beware. If I have a question I now just ask ChatGPT and it answers me directly, instead of having to trawl through links for the answer I need.
- Website building services: AI that can generate a website from text within 30 seconds. Wix and SquareSpace might be in trouble, as may website creation jobs.
- Digital artists: AI can create digital art in seconds.
And these are just the ones I can think off the top of my head.
I think it’s safe to say AI is here to stay. Its whole focus is to automate processes and make life easier, and this it will do, but it will uproot a lot of existing infrastructure that has been in place for a while.
Jobs will go; customer service chat agents, content writers, coders etc., but these jobs won’t necessarily become redundant. AI is a tool, and we can use it to improve the way we work and live, and it will force us to rethink certain roles and how we work within them.
I’ll be deadly honest with you, I think we live in a simultaneously exciting and terrifying time. The speed at which technology advances is breakneck, and it’s way too fast for any one person to keep up with.
We don’t know where we’re headed, or what turns we’ll take to get there, and we don’t know how we’ll adapt, all I know is that we will have to adapt.
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