Fascinating analysis of AI’s effects on freelancer hiring demand: everyone wants a chatbot

Bloomberry Jobs Report

tldr: writing, translation, & customer service jobs declined; everyone wants a chatbot, apparently

A few excerpts:

To my pleasant surprise, most of the job categories actually had an increase in the number of jobs since ChatGPT was released, with the exception of 3 categories that had large declines in jobs.

The above is important to keep in mind for AI luddite doomsayers; as the history of technology has repeatedly shown, though there may be short term disruption and harm to labor, the long term trend is that technology = more (newer and better) jobs

I was surprised to see graphics design, video editing/production, and even software development jobs go up, given all the anecdotal stories we’ve been hearing about people using ChatGPT to generate code, illustrations and even full featured videos.

And surprising on first blush, although perhaps logical if you assume good general purpose AI has reduced the need for specialized ML:

While there was a initial increase in data annotation jobs, the # of data annotation jobs have been fairly flat in the past 10 months. And the # of machine learning jobs has actually decreased a bit since ChatGPT was released.

Finally, I guess everyone loves to chat:

The most popular use case, by far for AI right now is in developing chatbots

Full article: https://bloomberry.com/i-analyzed-5m-freelancing-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-are-being-replaced-by-ai/

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