ChatGPT is a natural language processing program developed by OpenAI with the ability to answer most questions from its users. After only two months since its launch, ChatGPT now has 100 million users. 

Along with the quick rise of ChatGPT, many problems regarding the AI program are now being discussed. VietNamNet is introducing several articles about ChatGPT from the perspective of Vietnamese experts.

With ChatGPT, will young people become “lazy”?

As a technology enterprise with more than 150 employees, NCS Company has purchased a ChatGPT version for its technical team’s trial use. ChatGPT is quite strong in code, this unit also recommends that the testing team must have a certain level to distinguish between correct - false contents when using this tool.

Since January 2023, FUNiX – an online education organization - has equipped the most advanced version of ChatGPT to serve its students. ChatGPT has helped answer thousands of questions from students on the internal Q&A system. Many questions about programming, technical code, and technology knowledge are raised by students through chatbots. The application also provides useful answers for their questions about IT career orientation, effective self-study methods, etc.

Recently, many people who are working and studying in the field of technology have been very excited to experience communicating with ChatGPT and many people are surprised because it feels like they are talking to a human. This partly shows the great potential of ChatGPT application as well as related AI applications.

Talking to VietNamNet about the impact of ChatGPT, Mr. Vu Ngoc Son, Technical Director of NCS Company said that ChatGPT will urge the return of a fear that was posed in the boom era of Google - people, particularly young people, will get lazy because they can easily search for the knowledge instead of having to learn it. However, unlike Google, those who raise questions for ChatGPT need to have certain knowledge to get the best, most relevant answers. 

From the perspective of a technology expert working at Aptech International Programmer Training System, Mr. Dao Manh Thang said that ChatGPT is a useful tool, but like any other tool, it also has advantages and disadvantages.

When a powerful tool is born, there is often a psychological fear and many consider it a danger to humans. However, users of powerful tools like ChatGPT need to "upgrade" themselves to accommodate the change and master the tool.

As access to knowledge becomes easier, young people can take advantage to learn more information, know how to categorize information and improve themselves and society. Many young startups and large enterprises are developing applications on ChatGPT to serve daily work.

“When tools help provide knowledge, our job is to focus on exploiting and applying that knowledge to develop highly practical, effective and profitable applications. Thus, instead of assessing the knowledge young people are learning, it is necessary to change thinking and look at what they will be able to do," said Thang.

What should people prepare to not lose their jobs because of AI?

The concern that artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT may take the jobs of many people is also a matter. expert Dao Manh Thang said that this will happen and shifting jobs is essential. For AI tools in general and ChatGPT in particular, a new industrial revolution is gradually forming, where machines invade the tasks of remembering, thinking, reasoning, and analyzing that were previously be done by humans, just as machines replaced manual work of humans in the past.

"Therefore, everyone in society must make changes to match, otherwise they will be eliminated very quickly," Thang said.

Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Internet Association Vu The Binh said that ChatGPT, or other AI applications, can replace humans in many types of jobs, or one number of stages in a work cycle. The fields that require data/information collection and analysis and many jobs, including traditional occupations such as journalists, teachers, interpreters, receptionists, data analysts, etc., will be affected.

“However, we believe that technology was born to serve people, so in the end, the goal of technology application is people. And technology, no matter how sophisticated it is, cannot completely replace the role of humans. Of course, we also need to envision and prepare for the appropriate adaptation," Binh emphasized.

Van Anh