Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in popularity in almost everything we see and touch.

Now is the time for workers to get ahead and improve their skills to be a valuable commodity within the workforce.

AI jobs will be in high demand, and certain fields will see impacts almost immediately.

We’re seeing more examples of AI in our everyday lives. From social media to checkouts, at the grocery, and even in our own workplace.

The idea that AI can make work and tasks 100 times faster is appealing, especially for businesses looking to get ahead of competitors.

“When ChatGPT came out in November of 2022, that turned things on its head. From what I’m seeing in the research, a lot of organizations are embracing A-I,” said Chrisann Ruehle, Provost Faculty Fellow For Artificial Intelligence.

It may be time to start redesigning your career.

“What should people be doing right now? I mean, you know, people are thinking artificial intelligence is coming into the industry or into the work industry; what should I be doing right now to stay ahead of it?

“Beef up on skills. Chat GPT is free, chat GPT plus for 20 bucks a month. Get as much trading in on artificial intelligence and chat GPT, because the people who understand that will not only get better jobs and higher pay,” said Thomas Fellows, Chat GPT AI Researcher.

AI is on the move by leaps and bounds.

“The biggest thing that you have to understand about artificial intelligence is, it’s not only thinking convergently, convergently is like doing a physics problem, a math problem, learning a foreign language or a novel, but it’s also starting to think divergently,” said Fellows

People in the technology field will see their roles either increase or transform, requiring them to learn a new set of skills.

“They may not necessarily need the programming skills, but they need to have some experience and exposure using that technology,” said Ruehle.

Not only having the ability to learn new skills and apply them, can also have a tremendous increase in your pay.

“Prompt engineering is definitely in demand right now, and you can easily make into the six figures, $150, $250, $300,000 a year. There was even a job that paid $900,000 a year in artificial intelligence,” said Fellows.

In a recent PEW study, most professionals in the tech field fell. AI will help them in daily tasks, while just 11% feel it will hurt more than help.

“In this new economy, you will need to have emotional intelligence, practical intelligence, and you’re going to have to have divergent thinking, you’re going to have to think outside the box. You’ve got to be very, very, careful in this new economy, and this will be a new economy,” said Fellows.

Chat GPT continues to improve and show the world what it can do, and it is just scratching the surface.

“It doesn’t have to be 100 percent accurate to take away jobs. Even if it gets to 90 percent or 80 percent accuracy or even 50 percent accuracy, it will still take away jobs,” said Fellows.

The human element won’t completely just go away. There will still need to be a sense of curiosity, creativity, and that human touch that no machine can replace. This is the time you want to upskill other workers and show employers why your new skills will help them get what they need.

“I believe, based on what I’m seeing in the research, that generative AI has really accelerated the timeline for adopting artificial intelligence, and I really think we’re in this period where people are experimenting, they are starting to see efficiencies, they’re starting to really see the AI helping them to work more efficiently, effectively. And I think that’s going to continue to grow,” said Ruehle.

Having the ability to enter information into a machine and the data being crunched and analyzed within minutes is invaluable.

Right now, A-I and machine learning specialists are the fastest-growing jobs. It’s up to you, if you plan to get ahead, be left behind.