ALBANY — Management consultants and business analysts are most likely to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence, while manual jobs are least likely to be affected, according to a report from the UK Department for Education. But a recent survey of New York City executives and some professionals said jobs will be simplified, not replaced, at least in New York state.
On Friday, CBS6 explored UAlbany's AI in the Complex Systems Institute and how the company is researching ways to make artificial intelligence more effective and reliable. Mahsa Goodarzi is a second-year information science PhD student in the program who currently collects data in a variety of ways, but has a specific focus on this area.
“I study fashion recommendation systems and how they actually activate and reinforce biases,” she says. “Many people struggle to find the right options for them, just as the plus-size community and the disabled community have a very hard time.”
As such, she is currently researching language in the AI module's code to “pay more attention” to make it more comprehensive and accurate for each individual. Human touch is important and necessary to ensure these generative AI systems don't provide false information, or what they call “hallucinations,” said Abdullah Kambaz, an assistant professor at the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Technology. It says that there are cases.
“When you penalize an algorithm by saying, 'This isn't right,' you tell the algorithm to tweak it and avoid certain mistakes that weren't made before. This is called reinforcement learning. And this is a big part of generative AI models,” he says. “Most of the time we generate new versions of these models and then update their 'don't list'…that accumulates over time and creates flags around them.” . ”
Research on New York City executives, as 92% of New York City AI executives say they will hire AI professionals in the next three years, including sectors such as financial services, health services, energy, nature, and more, according to an Accenture report. suggests that students who learn these skills have a bright future. resource.
“The fear that AI will take over the industry and people will lose their jobs…I believe that will disappear very quickly as new jobs will come in,” Kambas says. “We need people to operate these machines, and we need people to understand AI. We want to train machines to do repetitive tasks so we don't have to do them again. …Push it to the machine and it can do it.'' Whatever the frequency of the task, if you do it 10 times a minute, 10 times an hour, you can do other things. ”
The report, which surveyed 500 executives, found that governments' role in setting AI regulations will be key to ensuring that AI technologies are seen as trustworthy in the future and that consumers feel safe using them. Says.
“I think it's going to be very impactful,” Goodarzi said. “That's because I care about having a positive impact on society, and I believe everyone will find joy in that.”