It has been reported that more than 168,000 IT professionals have been laid off since the start of the year in 46 tech companies. Reason? To cut costs as AI has optimised processes with automation of repetitive tasks, data analysis at scale, etc making many jobs redundant.
However, a recent survey conducted by Gartner has demonstrated quite the contrary.
Helen Poitevin, a distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, said: “Organisations that improve ROI are not those that eliminate the need for people, but those that amplify them by aggressively investing in skills, roles and operating models that allow humans to guide and scale autonomous systems.”
There you have it!
Moreover, the need for ‘suitably’ skilled people will go up, not down. Gartner predicts that autonomous business will be a ‘net-positive’ job creator by 2028 mainly driven by new forms of work that AI cannot absorb.
Whoa! Now that is music to the ears many techies would love to hear, for sure.
On a personal note, I tried toying with AI to get some tasks done and to my dismay it didn’t quite deliver. Many prompts were not executed correctly or misinterpreted. So much for the free version.
In any case, it reassured me that while algorithms can process tonnes of data, make our life tad easier; they cannot replace humans who will continue to write the script, direct the play and run the show regardless.
Sheela Pai
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