With the rise of ChatGPT, the big fear of artificial intelligence (AI) taking over jobs has only gotten stronger by the day.
However, contrary to popular perception, India's IT sector, and its industry body, Nasscom, believe that instead of taking jobs away, AI would help facilitate the creation of more jobs.
Nasscom's strategic review report highlights that AI is the highest employment-generating sector within the tech industry and is likely to only grow more as the Indian tech industry aims to reach $245 billion in size by the end of FY2023.
Talking to Business Today, Debjani Ghosh, President of Nasscom, said that the world has always reacted in a negative way when a new thing arrives.
Debjani Ghosh pointed out that when automation arrived on the scene, there was widespread fear that this new technology would end up eating away many jobs and that techies need to upskill to stay relevant.
Echoing Ghosh, Krishnan Ramanujam, President, of Enterprise Growth Group, at TCS, is of the opinion that AI and automation taking away livelihood has now become an old and boring story.
Talking to BT, Murthy came in support of ChatGPT and stressed on the fact that it can never take away jobs. "I have used ChatGPT and no it can never take over human jobs.
It can facilitate better and smooth functioning but humans will never be replaced by AI," he noted.
CP Gurnani, CEO and Managing Director of Tech Mahindra, too explained his thought on generative AI and said, "I am so happy about the generative AI. To me, it did not take away jobs. It created jobs. Technology is the heart of everything."