Will ChatGPT Take Over Our Jobs?

With technology revolutionising our era and becoming a crucial part in our everyday lives, one must ask given the rapid speed at which technology seems to be advancing: Will artificial intelligence, namely ChatGPT, take over our jobs?

Now what we seem to mostly rely on in school is no other than ChatGPT, thus this will be the main topic of discussion.

First we start off by listing what ChatGPT can help us achieve. It can help you improve on writing pieces by fleshing out and embellishing vague ideas and correcting grammar, and another example would be helping with mathematical questions. It can also give information about facts, fiction, people, et cetera, proving quite the convenient and useful tool as a search function, especially for projects as we require valid facts to show proof.

However ChatGPT also has its weak points. It can also make slight slip ups in spelling and grammar, and at times its mathematical solution may simply be wrong or at times a different syllabus. When giving facts over movies it may confuse characters and events that have happened and instead gives completely inaccurate descriptions, sometimes when asked about people too (e.g. Fyodor Dostoyevsky). Given its unpredictable inaccuracy which shows from time to time we’d do best not to blindly copy and paste without checking through first.

Many have become reliant on ChatGPT to check through or even plainly do their work for them, sometimes leading to the work being vague as ChatGPT was not clearly instructed with pin-point accuracy as to what to do, and sometimes leading to the work being completely wrong. Despite all these, it is listening and learning to be better, and learning to make us more reliant on it.

According to New York Times on December 17, 2024, last year, OpenAI raised $10 billion. Just 18 months later, the company had burned through most of that money, thus raising $6.6 billion more and arranging to borrow an additional $4 billion. In another 18 months or so it will need another cash infusion as the San Francisco start-up is spending more than $5.4 billion per year; by 2029 OpenAI expects to spend $37.5 billion a year. The accelerating expenses are the main reason the corporate structure of the company, which began as a nonprofit research lab, could soon change with the billions needed in the years to come, with executives believing it will be more attractive to investors as a for-profit company. With information being gathered by ingesting larger pools of data, larger amounts of computing power is needed from giant data centers, with graphic processing units (GPUs) perhaps costing more than $30, 000 apiece. This is the most computationally intensive task the world has ever seen, and the company expects computing costs will grow sevenfold by 2029 as it chases the dream of artificial general intelligence - a machine that can do as much as the human brain, or more - chasing perfection.

As with all profit oriented corporates,  revenue is paramount. And how to increase revenue? Increase more usage and subscription which will in turn increase reliance, and with more and more reliance, take over the literature world. Can you imagine not having a phone at this day and age? Or no internet? Will there be a day where we can’t live or operate without ChatGPT? That could be the goal of the corporate for the benefit of the product and the investors.

With all the effort being put in and how fast ChatGPT is progressing, the natural worry is that it will take over jobs. However with as much money as it needs some say it will fall into bankruptcy. ChatGPT can be used to write stories, create art, and count money, meaning that writers, artists and accountants may fall out of jobs if that happens.

However there are some jobs ChatGPT will never replace because of human touch, like psychologists that require connection on a deeper level.

ChatGPT is used to improve work as we chase perfection in a convenient way by relying on other sources, but are we becoming too dependent on artificial intelligence? The grass is always greener on the other side, and as technology improves there will surely be a yearning inside us for human touch. Typos could even be a sign of human touch at this point. It will never take over jobs that need humanity - that authentic touch to things.

While chasing the dream of perfection is a good thing and using tools is a smart way to work towards it, we should not be that dependent on artificial intelligence.

There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. With such blind reliance there is no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge and abilities. To create something more wonderful than anything before them is great, but never to obtain perfection as perfection brings despair.

And can we stop relying on ChatGPT if we want to? Yes! Use your index finger and press “X” or turn off the switch. 

But Artificial Intelligence can turn it back on…

Natasha

Secondary 2 DIligence

2025