If you never experiment with artificial intelligence like ChatGPT, it might negatively influence your career down the road. So why not give it a chance?
Since launching in November, the OpenAI-owned chatbot has taken the world by storm, reaching over 100 million active users by the end of January. In the working world, ChatGPT has helped users apply for jobs and be more productive once they land them.
While some companies have resisted AI like ChatGPT, many, including Snapchat, Slack, and Duolingo, have incorporated ChatGPT-powered tools into their businesses. But the AI isn't poised to affect just the tech industry. Roughly 300 million jobs across the globe could be influenced by generative AI, Goldman Sachs estimated, and in this future, workers who have familiarity with AI tools could be in high demand.
Ninety-one percent of the 1,187 business leaders surveyed in an April Resume Builder study said they're looking to hire workers with ChatGPT experience in roles such as customer service, sales and finance, human resources, and marketing.
But despite the expected importance of this technology for workers, 62% of Americans in a March Marist poll of 1,327 US adults — and 45% of Gen Zers and millennials — said they had little or no knowledge of ChatGPT.
In the future, workers might be replaced not by ChatGPT but by their fellow humans who manage to familiarize themselves with and use emerging AI technologies.
Oded Netzer, a Columbia Business School professor, told Insider: "You will not be replaced by AI but replaced by someone who knows what to do with AI. The people who know what to do with AI will become more efficient in what they do."
In April, Insider published a step-by-step guide on how to access and use ChatGPT. Once you're ready to play around with it, here are six fun prompts ChatGPT beginners can use to familiarize themselves with the technology.
Once you get the hang of it, you might be able to use it to make your job easier.