Brainstorming to choose school, choose career

“Some of our jobs today are done by many people, but in the future, no one will do them anymore, AI will do them for us. Should we worry or not?”, Professor Ngo Bao Chau raised this question when attending an event on Fintech, AI, Blockchain, Cloud in Hai Duong on the morning of August 18.

In fact, such a replacement has been and is happening, it is no longer entirely a matter of the future. My agency is an example. As a press agency, in the past, reporters and many collaborators mostly wrote by hand, then after going through the editing stages, they would send it to the printing staff to type. In those days, not only press agencies but every agency had a typewriter with a fixed salary. Later, reporters and collaborators typed articles on computers and then emailed them to the editorial office. Therefore, there was no longer a place for typewriters.

After that, we applied the model of a converged electronic newsroom, from the stage of reporters entering news to the next editorial levels, all through this system. Anywhere with a computer or phone with an internet connection, you can work.

For e-newspapers, in the past, after the news articles were approved, a team of technicians had to upload them to the system. But since August 25, readers must have been quite surprised by the completely new interface of Hai Duong e-newspaper. And you will be even more surprised to know that the entire "form" of these news articles is uploaded and presented by each reporter. Editors at all levels also intervene and change right on this system and when the last person presses the button to approve publication, the product appears on the e-newspaper.

Previously, many podcast or video products of Hai Duong electronic newspaper also used AI voices instead of human voices. However, with this change, there will have to be a rearrangement in terms of personnel. Those who previously did the job of uploading news articles will have to move to other jobs.

In many other parts of society, technology is also gradually replacing humans. For example, in the past, water and electricity companies also collected electricity and water bills directly at village cultural houses and residential areas every month, but recently many places have switched to non-cash payment methods, through online services such as e-wallets, bank transfers, etc.

From November 2023, in Hai Duong City, there will no longer be a direct electricity bill collection counter. Previously, pension payments were also made directly at the village cultural house and residential area. However, the provincial Social Insurance is currently actively promoting and mobilizing to pay pensions and social allowances entirely through accounts. This means that many people who used to work directly collecting electricity and water bills or paying pensions and social allowances have been and will be replaced.

Technology is gradually replacing human labor in many jobs and many different fields. In the industrial sector, automated production lines, robotic arms, etc. are participating in more and more processes. Even in the agricultural sector, transplanters, harvesters, and drones have replaced human labor.

Remember earlier this year, ChatGPT launched and created quite a stir in society. ChatGPT can compose poems on demand, edit an article, write a thesis, program computers…

Many universities have just announced their admission scores. Some schools have conducted additional admissions… According to regulations, university-admitted candidates must confirm their admission before 5 p.m. on September 6. Which school to attend and which career to choose to avoid being replaced in the future is a choice that requires a lot of thought from students and their families at this time.