Study finds ChatGPT isn’t taking anyone’s job, at least not yet

ChatGPT became commercially available in late 2022 and then revolutionized the tech landscape. Every company under the sun prioritized AI software, and we’ve witnessed massive … The post Study finds ChatGPT isn’t taking anyone’s job, at least not yet appeared first on BGR.

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Study finds ChatGPT isn’t taking anyone’s job, at least not yet

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ChatGPT became commercially available in late 2022 and then revolutionized the tech landscape. Every company under the sun prioritized AI software, and we've witnessed massive developments in the past two and a half years since ChatGPT went viral.

But as soon as ChatGPT arrived, we saw worries about AI replacing jobs. The fears worsened as OpenAI released better models, and competitors like Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek arrived to challenge ChatGPT's supremacy while delivering similarly powerful features.

The new theme in AI tech is agentic behavior for AI, which allows AI to work on tasks without human intervention. Some AI agents can browse the web and perform actions on your behalf. Others can help with coding. AI agents are still in the early days, but they're a superior manifestation of AI sophistication, and they deepen the worry that AI might displace even more jobs.

While those fears are certainly warranted and need to be part of the conversation whenever an AI firm launches a potentially disruptive AI model, a new study says AIs like ChatGPT are hardly taking anyone's job or improving productivity meaningfully. Using AI in the workplace might improve some tasks, but it's creating an additional workload directly tied to the job the AI is performing.

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