There is no doubt that ChatGPT and AI in general as it evolves will impact oil and gas jobs.
That’s what Gladney B. Darroh, founder and president of Houston-based Piper-Morgan Search, told Rigzone, adding that it will “reduce the overall need for people.”
“To understand what’s coming to oil and gas, look no further than a recent New York Times article on AI’s performance in more than 275,000 breast cancer cases: “AI software will match the performance of human radiologists when acting as a second reader of mammogram scans.” . It also reduced radiologists’ workload by at least 30 percent, and the technology increased the cancer detection rate by 13 percent cent because artificial intelligence found more malignancies,” Darroh noted.
“This is just the beginning of the impact of AI in the health sector. Extrapolating from this article, it is not a big leap of logic to clearly understand how the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare it is a precursor to the oil and gas industry,” he added.
“The fact is that anything in the energy industry that requires interpreting, measuring or quantifying data, AI will be able to do it all more accurately and much faster, if not now, then soon, like in the next five to ten years. Darroh continued.
The founder of Piper-Morgan Search emphasized that he recently contributed aa Rigzone article focused on the ability of the energy industry to attract enough young peopleand noted that, at the time, he commented that the oil and gas industry would always have the right mix of incentives to get new graduates in the door.
“I still think that’s true,” he told Rigzone.
“However, with the advent of AI, in the coming years the oil and gas industry and many others will not need to hire people of any experience level at the same historical rate,” he added.
Offering his opinion, Joshua May, managing director and technical recruiting consultant at HireStrong LLC, a subsidiary of Sanford Rose Associates, told Rigzone that ChatGPT will affect all workplaces.
“I think it’s going to affect oil and gas jobs as well,” he said.
“Primarily, at the moment, ChatGPT is great for creating content to post for marketing purposes, job ads, standard operating procedures, etc. Anything that’s written can start to build a big outline within ChatGPT,” he add.
“However, you need to know what you’re doing to go after the fact and clean it up. ChatGPT won’t replace jobs wholesale (some, maybe), but it will make the work we do every day easier,” he continued.
ChatGPT can also help analyze data, create formulas and create code, May noted, adding that all of these “can impact oil and gas.”
“The only thing holding ChatGPT back from the oil and gas industry is people in the oil and gas industry not adopting the technology,” he said.
“Some technologies take years to adopt (and let’s face it, many companies, such as oil and gas, are still using legacy systems from before 2000). So while there may be slow momentum to adopt this new technology, those who do so now will be ahead of their competitors,” added May.
OpenAI, which describes itself as an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, introduced ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.
In a statement posted on its website on November 30 last year, OpenAI said ChatGPT is a sister model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a message and provide a detailed response.
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