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How to Future-Proof Your Career in the Age of AI

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Discussions about the future of business, work, and education have focused heavily on artificial intelligence, particularly ChatGPT and its recently released successor, GPT-4. After a failed AI product demonstration cast doubt on Google’s capacity to compete, ChatGPT overtook Instagram to become the fastest-growing consumer application in history.

The current wave of AI is quickly proving that it is capable of far more than just crunching numbers and analyzing data. It is also capable of producing professional-caliber art and design as well as articles and copywriting that may eventually displace many journalists and marketers.

Debating whether this technology is “smarter” or “better” than us is no longer relevant. The resources are available, and they are currently in widespread usage. What is important to us is how we can use them to improve ourselves. Of course, AI has a virtually limitless number of tactical uses.

Beyond particular use cases, though, we’re more interested in investigating the possibility that, even as AI starts to demonstrate its enormous capability, there may still be methods that experts can utilize to provide distinctive value.

What can we personally do, in other words, to protect ourselves against potential displacement brought on by AI and prepare for a world populated by intelligent machines? Here are five tactics that we believe are very important.

Avoid being predictable

It’s critical to keep in mind that AI only predicts the most likely word to come next; it doesn’t create fresh insights.  On a larger scale, its recommendations have a tendency to converge, and they are only as wise as the wisdom of the masses, which is frequently the exact reverse of wisdom.

However, if used properly, this feature of generative AI can be a potent weapon. You can utilize GPT-4 to access this common knowledge—or ignorance—for example, if you want to understand how most people feel or think about something, including their preconceptions and misconceptions. However, if we just use the technologies blindly, their algorithms and nudges can make us more predictable beings who eventually start to sound the same.

Although GPT-4 is an effective tool for brainstorming and first draughts, you can be better served by doing contrary to what it advises because you’ll be defying accepted knowledge. When everyone else is moving to AI, we might find the benefit of talking like ourselves and embracing our own personality, spontaneity, and unpredictability.

Develop the abilities that machines are trying to copy

GPT-4 has been taught to be respectful and courteous, without a doubt. Its responses demonstrate empathy, self-awareness, and even creativity. However, such responses are based on text prediction, and AI is unable to understand or exhibit the human-like forms of these soft skills. Humans are predisposed to respond to real emotions, thus genuinely being aware of and caring about what others think is important.

More emphasis on “the real world”

GPT-4, like any AI, is restricted to the digital realm.  It’s crucial to understand that our analogue, in-person interactions with others cannot be disrupted by AI, so it’s crucial to set aside time and protect those. Since we’ve been without them for so long, pre-pandemic.

Similar to this, since AI can only connect the dots and information that has already been provided to it, original research, which involves really speaking to people and discovering fresh ideas, becomes essential.

You can only truly contribute something new to the cultural debate when you draw on knowledge that isn’t available online through your personal experience, original interviews, and conversations. This isn’t achievable with artificial intelligence (AI).

Create a personal brand

The lower and intermediate segments of the market in many industries may very well be eliminated by AI technologies if they achieve a sufficient level of competence. Because of the strength of their brands, it is almost probable that those sector leaders won’t be replaced.

In some circumstances, AI may even match the quality of professionals at the highest echelons. Corporate leaders will probably continue to pay a premium to work with people seen as having more influence.

Develop your expertise

GPT-4 and other AI technologies are powerful researchers who can access a flood of data almost instantly. Sadly, some of those assertions are untrue. As a result, even while AI is a very valuable tool, at least as of now, it cannot always be trusted to give accurate results.

As a result, establish a reputation for having recognized competence in your field. Even if AI performs “first draught” duties, it must still be confirmed by an authoritative and reliable source. If you fit that description, people will continue to look for you.

Perhaps very soon, AI technology has the potential to completely change how we work. You can continue to identify and offer distinct value even as GPT-4 and other technologies improve by using the tactics listed above. That’s the most obvious route to career insurance for oneself, even in changing circumstances.

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