Artificial intelligence technologies are rapidly changing the labor market and everyday life. What professions will be under a threat, and who will remain irreplaceable? The answers to these questions were given by Head of the Laboratory of Applied Artificial Intelligence (LAAI) of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) Maxim V. Abramov in live broadcast on Radio Rossii.
On February 7, on the eve of the Russian Science Day, Maxim V. Abramov was given a floor in the Nevskoye Utro program, within the Guest in the Studio section, where he spoke about the impact of artificial intelligence on various areas of activity and possible prospects for automation
One of the key topics of the broadcast was the impact of large language models on the labor market. The expert and the program host discussed the areas where artificial intelligence works and what specialists can already be replaced by large language models. Translators and creators are at risk. Artificial intelligence is capable of becoming a full-fledged participant in a dialogue and generating creative content based on its experience. However, the models capacities are somewhat limited by the data they are trained on. Everything proposed by artificial intelligence somehow repeats the already existing, rather than creating something fundamentally new.
"Robot - janitors will appear sooner than robot -composers. Specialists able of delivering unique ideas and developing new directions will stay in demand," noted Maxim Abramov.
In addition, the presence of artificial intelligence in everyday life was discussed on the air. Already now, most support lines of various services use language models to generate responses. Even where the user interacts with a person, as a rule, a preliminary response is prepared by a neural network. Then the operator looks at this response and either agrees with it and forwards it, or does not. Despite this, certain clients of some services still distrust the responses of the neural network and prefer to communicate a specialist.
According to statistics, at Sberbank, about 50% of such cases resulted in AI technologies generating the same answer that a person would then give. However, for some reason, the user felt more comfortable communicating a person, who is more trusted, and expected that the issue would be resolved faster," said Maxim Abramov.
The broadcast recording is available here: Radio Rossii, as well as at the telegram channel of SPC RAS.