The Potential of AI to replace majority of work people do
The world is experiencing a historic moment in artificial intelligence technology, according to cognitive scientist Ben Goertzel, co-developer of Sophia the Robot. He believes that the new large language models that power generative AI have the potential to transform the world by replacing many tasks currently performed by human workers.
Goertzel believes that generative AI models, like the one that powers ChatGPT, can replace many of the tasks currently performed by human workers. "You don't need to be incredibly creative and innovative or make big leaps to do most people's jobs, as it turns out," said Goertzel. This could eventually lead to industry reshuffling and reassigning job duties, with some jobs being automated by AI tools.
Even though some jobs can be automated, Goertzel identifies two main areas AI will not replace. Firstly, jobs that require human interaction and secondly, require groundbreaking creativity. For example, jobs like preschool teachers, political strategists, and artists require human interaction.
Despite the advancements in AI, Goertzel emphasizes that AGI, the kind of AI capable of human-like thinking and creativity will not replace jobs that rely on human interaction. He predicts that breakthroughs in AGI could occur within the next three to ten years.
Today's generative AIs "are able to impersonate general AIs by just having such a broad variety of training data," he said. "They don't have to go far beyond that training data to do amazing stuff. It's a testament to the power of computer networks and multi-GPU server farms."
While the current state of AI technology is not AGI, Goertzel is optimistic that combining large language models, machine reasoning, and evolutionary learning will accelerate progress toward AGI. The advancements in AI and AGI will surely provoke deep thought and discussion for years to come.
