Never has there been so much talk about generative artificial intelligence. Since November 17, the fate of Sam Altman, the man at the head of the company which created the ChatGPT software – capable of developing texts in natural language, according to the request formulated by the user – has fueled without discontinue the column.
Not only because the boss of a start-up valued at nearly 90 billion dollars (82 billion euros) was disembarked (temporarily), but also because the tools it develops – able to write an essay instead of a student, a screenplay instead of a screenwriter, or advising an insured person instead of a human interlocutor – seem to be able to change the trajectory of the global economy.
As recently as November 2, Elon Musk, himself an early investor in OpenAI, Sam Altman’s company, estimated that eventually, there would come a time when no human labor will not be ” necessary “. An observation that defies The report published on November 17 by the Roland Berger firm, which focuses on the French case alone.
A third of professions will be faced with it
This details ” the exhibition “ to generative AI of the entire French activity, by breaking it down into 400 professions and describing for each of them each task which could be either automated – in other words, done by a robot – or improved thanks to the use of these technologies. The greater the proportion of tasks that can be automated, the more the profession is threatened with disappearing.
In the case of a secretary, one or more software programs could, for example, take care of operations such as writing meeting minutes, managing the agenda, writing standard forms, responding to routine mail. Conversely, its presence could still be necessary for functions with higher added value, such as welcoming visitors, answering important calls or physically organizing meetings.
First lesson, a third of professions will be confronted, positively or negatively, with the emergence of this technology in a fairly short time horizon, by around 2030. “The impacts are significant, but, however, a lot of professions should not see their job descriptions change in the years to come”, underlines Laurent Benarousse, general manager of Laurent Berger France.
Women more affected than men
The most manual professions are obviously the most spared from this technological revolution: ChatGPT will not replace a plumber, a carpenter or a hairdresser, even if, at the margin, companies will be able to use this type of technology for additional functions (take appointments, drafting documents, etc.).
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