ARTIFICIAL intelligence is improving rapidly and it’s now being used to do a range of jobs humans used to do.
We’ve rounded up a few examples of when AI was used to do a job that a human normally would.
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The job roles range from writing news articles to giving mental health advice.
Some experts see this as AI replacing humans in the workforce and others view it as merely assisting them.
AI counselor
A popular mental health app recently received backlash over a social experiment conducted with ChatGPT.
Koko, a peer-to-peer support app, used OpenAI’s GPT-3 to counsel 4,000 people.
Koko’s co-founder, Rob Morris shared the details of the experiment on a Twitter thread that went viral shortly after.
He said: “Messages composed by AI (and supervised by humans) were rated significantly higher than those written by humans on their own (p < .001)”.
However, the AI tool was soon pulled off the app.
Morris said: “Once people learned the messages were co-created by a machine, it didn’t work.
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“Simulated empathy feels weird, empty.”
AI journalists
Popular news outlet CNET has been publishing articles written by AI since November.
“What is a credit card charge-off?” was the first AI-written article, published on November 11 by CNET Money.
Since, then the AI tool is said to have generated around 100 articles for the website.
An anonymous human reporter recently published a first-person piece on Futurism regarding AI taking over the newsroom.
The journalist currently works for Red Venture – the company that owns CNET, Bankrate, CreditCards.com, and others.
And according to their account, CNET and Bankrate are now employing AI bots to publish articles.
“The AI is here, and it’s pumping out articles — inaccurate, messily copied, poorly disclosed ones,” the reporter writes.
“At a rate that I probably couldn’t achieve even if I skipped sleep, gave up eating, abdicated all hobbies and responsibilities, and forwent all those other annoying little human things that seem to get in the way of the glorious goal of making my company money,” they added.
AI marketing interns
Earlier this year, the world’s first AI-powered interns were hired for a three-month stint.
Tech marketing agency Codeword onboarded two AI interns to complete dull yet necessary tasks, Global News Wire reported.
The AI interns named themselves Aiden and Aiko and are joining Codeword’s team of 106 humans.
“There’s a lot of talk and fear and hype about how new AI tools will integrate with creative teams,” Kyle Monson, partner at Codeword said.
“As an agency that straddles the creative and technology worlds, we want to explore what human-AI collaborations can look like,” he added.
