Worried AI will take your remote job? You're safe for now, this study shows

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• AIs were given work tasks already completed by real people.
• The AIs failed miserably compared with the human workers.
• But AI is getting smarter.

One of the many fears about AI is that it will replace people in their jobs. And though such fears aren't unfounded, they may be overblown, at least for now, according to a new study.

Remote Labor Index

To gauge whether artificial intelligence could complete a project as effectively as a human being, a group of researchers gave several AIs a series of work projects to perform. Already accomplished by real remote freelance workers, the projects covered game development, product design, architecture, data analysis, and video animation.

 More specifically, the tasks included such challenges as the following:

• Build an interactive dashboard for exploring data from ...