Comment by darkoob12

I am an AI researcher working for a small company. When ChatGPT came out and people started to solve all sort of problems with prompting, I questioned my role and reasoned that in future middle-level researches will lose their jobs and if I want to stay in this business I have to upgrade my skills and possibly start publishing papers and get a PhD. Since in future only big tech companies would do research in AI and many automation problems of small companies would be solved with foundation models. And the competition for research jobs at big companies would be very tight.