How AI can save you time: 5 skills you no longer need to learn

Over the past few months, developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have taken huge strides and its use has skyrocketed, especially after the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

However, while it might be reasonable to start preparing for a world ruled by AI, more often than not results might be exaggerated and AI capacities overhyped.

People are scared of an uncertain future where they risk losing their jobs, stability, and value in society as their skills are getting more easily automatable. However, AI will always need human collaboration, and sometimes intervention, to function properly.

"We don't want to be completely over-reliant on AIs in the future, because what happens if the next virus is not the coronavirus but a massive computer virus that basically renders all our computers and destroys or locks all our computer systems?" Bernard Marr, a futurist and internationally best-selling author, told Euronews Next.

This being said, while AI is not expected to fully mimic humans' abilities, it is becoming good at performing repetitive basic, or robotic tasks.

This can save time and offer people space to explore the use of special human capabilities, such as creativity and imagination.

"People often get scared when you think about all the capabilities that AI now have. So what does it mean for my job as someone that writes, for example, will this mean that in the future tools like ChatGPT will write all our articles? And the answer is no. But what it will do is it will augment our jobs," Marr added.

Here are five skills that you can now skip learning thanks to recent developments in the field of AI.

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