AI And The Economy: Potential Gains In Industries, Occupations And Tasks
– Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading across different fields of the economy, but the gains will vary in strength.
– To identify potential productivity gains, it is more sensible to analyze AI potential based on occupations rather than industries.
– Occupations encompass a wide range of jobs, and while some are specific to a single industry, others are found in multiple industries.
Occupations may involve different tasks, and current AI models can assist with certain tasks but not others. Around 80% of the U.S. workforce...
...could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
– Estimates of economic impacts related to AI are speculative, and decision-makers should consider the available information and the level of uncertainty.
– Tasks that involve hands-on activities, particularly with unique or unusual materials, are less likely to be replaced by AI.
– The latest AI models leverage existing knowledge to address problems that align with that knowledge, increasing productivity in certain areas. Evidence suggests that programmers using AI can be twice as productive.
– AI struggles with solving unusual problems or creating entirely new features that have not been implemented before.
– AI can greatly assist tasks like summarizing financial statements, where it can quickly generate a summary based on patterns from similar statements.
– Many jobs will involve a combination of AI and traditional work methods, such as programmers describing features to AI and then reviewing the code.
– Mixed use of AI may occur, where some tasks are handled by AI with high success rates, while others are referred to humans with AI suggestions or monitored by AI during training.
– The framework of AI impact can help companies identify areas for productivity improvement and workers assess the risk of unemployment and explore job protection by entering less AI-susceptible occupations.
– Not all potential gains of AI will be realized, and the next article in the series will address the number of high-potential applications that are actually implemented.
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