New Era of AI - will it take your job for real ?

Published: 2/22/2025

AI, or artificial intelligence, is the word of this decade. Now and then we hear something related to ‘AI,’ whether it’s integration into existing products or being used as a selling point to fear it taking away existing jobs. The vast spectrum of information that is out there is leading to some confusion and some unnecessary fear. In this week’s blog, let’s try to answer some of them.

AI in its present state seems to be the future, no doubt about it. In the future, you are going to see AI in mostly everything or being used as an assistant to achieve our goals. It has advanced to such a level that it can now generate content on its own from the context you give it along with the content the AI is already trained in. Think of it like a 6th standard child who can form sentences or communicate with you. If you teach (training in AI language) the child to do a certain task by telling them how to do it and overseeing them a few times till they do it correctly, they rise up to a level that they can do it unsupervised. That is where the state of today’s AI is at. The AI has been trained to do multiple such tasks—write an email, write a letter, create an image from text, and understand context—that it has become an independent entity to such a level that it can do the task unsupervised, and this is why it is so much in the news lately; whatever can be done by AI is being done by AI nowadays.

How is this cycle different from the past hype cycles in AI?

AI in the past used to be intelligently programmed programs that used to solve the most commonly occurring issues that were straightforward to solve or fix. Think of it like cramming the most commonly asked questions of an exam; one might be able to score well if the exam contains already asked questions but would fail to score if any new question is asked. This is because one has just memorised the questions but not understood the topic. AI in its current state is like a child who has started to understand the topic and hence is capable of answering questions irrespective of whether they are repetitive or newly asked. This is what makes this AI cycle different.

How far has AI come?

AI has evolved, and it is now being used in writing formal communications, generating images and videos, and even writing code/programs. It has reached the level of a helpful assistant that can do low-intellect tasks for you so that you can focus on doing the final polishing. It has now reached the level wherein it can be used by a normal human being in its day-to-day tasks, irrespective of the field/domain; probably they are already using AI, and they might not be aware of it. How exciting, right?

We all can use AI in some form or other in our day-to-day lives such that it can help in increasing our productivity and probably our incomes. The future, in my opinion, is going to be humans + AI, such that the ones who know how to use it effectively will be able to increase their incomes faster than those who don’t.

Will AI take my job?

Short answer: it depends. If your job requires you to memorise some text/repeatable steps/sharing information in a certain manner (media spokesperson, I am talking about you), then yes. AI can do all of the above and in a better way too, but I think these jobs were already replaceable in the first place. One could easily be trained and replace its original placeholder, and this is why I am not fearing AI as of now. Yes, it has got scary good, but at the fundamental level, it is a computer program that is smart enough to understand you better and provide you the information that you ask of it. It does not have its own mind to think independently, to innovate, to experiment, to understand human emotions, or to talk to humans in ways a human can do. Hence, I do not think AI will take the majority of jobs but will be transforming the existing jobs to use AI and replace the ones that were already ripped to be replaced.

In the end, I would like to conclude that the times forward are with AI and not without AI. One should start using it in a very basic sense, like summarising documents or notes, asking doubts, and asking objective questions related to a domain/field. I myself have started to use AI to learn about a domain/field. I use AI as a teacher/tutor wherein I ask it questions related to a topic, its important pillars, its workings, and understand the various theories. Not only that, but I also ask it to simplify or dumb it down to a level that I can understand. Hence, in ways, it is helping me to expand my knowledge and making the learning process shorter. So accept the AI future and try to include it to prosper.

Hope you learnt something from this blog. Give feedback on what you are liking in these blogs, what you are not, and what all topics you would like to learn about next. Till next time— Happy learning! :)