Most of the tasks which are performed in white-collar jobs will be fully automated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming 12 to 18 months, announced by the Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on Thursday.
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The white-collar jobs like lawyers, accountants and project managers which involve sitting down at a computer, will be fully automated by an AI, said Suleyman during a media interview.
Moving ahead, he has given the reference of software engineering, where professionals are reportedly using AI to assist with the vast majority of their code production.
It appears that the role of engineers is now shifted to doing “strategic” stuff, like architecting and putting things into production, he said.
Moving ahead, this shift in job roles has taken place in the last six months, according to the expert.
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Today there are AI models that can code better than the vast majority of human coders, “maybe even all of them to date,” Suleyman said.
Further highlighting that creating a new model will become as simple as “creating a podcast or writing a blog.”
Now, institutions or organisations could be able to design an AI that suits their requirement.
In an interview, Suleyman said that AI agents will further be able to handle workflows of large institutions within the next two to three years.
Microsoft Aims To Build Superintelligence
Further, Suleyman said that his mission is to build a superintelligence while talking about his vision for Microsoft.
The company has re-negotiated a long-term relationship with OpenAI, extending the IP license till 2032 a few months ago, he said.
“We also decided this was the moment we have to set about delivering true AI self-sufficiency,” he said.
Moreover, Suleyman talked about developing their own foundation models of AI, which will have a good training team and will organise and sort all data.
The timing of these comments are implacable as there are a lot of concerns that AI will replace human tasks and lead to widespread layoffs.
In a recent blog post, Amazon informed layoffs affecting as many as 16,000 corporate jobs amid “rising competition over AI.”
Microsoft said that it has signed a new agreement with OpenAI, building on a ‘strengthening partnership’ between both organisations in its blog post last year.
