Why Soft Skills Are the Future of Work

Insights from OpenAI Researcher Karina Nguyen

The AI Revolution Is Here, and It’s Not What You Think

Imagine a world where machines can code better than humans, diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors, and write essays indistinguishable from those penned by Pulitzer Prize winners. Now stop imagining, because that world is already here.

Almost. =)

But before you start panicking about your job security, there’s a plot twist you need to know about.

In a recent interview with Karina Nguyen on a podcast, an AI researcher at OpenAI who has helped build groundbreaking models like GPT-3, a surprising truth emerged:

as AI gets smarter, it’s not the technical skills that will set humans apart — it’s the soft skills.

“Creative thinking, you kind of want to generate a bunch of ideas, filter through them in order to build the best product experience,” Nguyen explains.

“I think it’s actually really, really hard to teach the model how to be aesthetic with really good visual design or how to be extremely creative in the way they write.”