AI replaces artificial intelligence and takes the education industry first? U.S. version of "Homework Gang" starts layoffs

Author: Chang Jiashuai

Since ChatGPT became popular, “AI replaces artificial intelligence” has become a nightmare for workers around the world to worry about unemployment. Today, the fears are real, and the education industry is the first to bear the brunt.

On Monday local time, the American version of “Homework Help” Chegg said in an SEC filing that it will lay off about 4% of its employees, or about 80 people, to better execute its artificial intelligence strategy. Became the first education company to lay off staff due to the impact of AI.

Chegg’s main business is online homework tutoring. During the epidemic, as students generally take classes online, the demand for Chegg’s services has increased significantly.

However, in May, Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig stated on the earnings conference call that ChatGPT affected the company’s performance growth, which soon triggered a chain reaction, and the stock price plummeted 48% in one day. This year, the company’s stock price has fallen by 57%. %.

Chegg is also aggressively retooling its business as AI chatbots such as ChatGPT gain popularity among students. In May, Chegg launched CheggMate, an AI tutoring assistant that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 API.

According to the plan, CheggMate will use Chegg’s personalized learning platform, expert data sets and GPT-4’s problem-solving ability to build an AI conversational learning assistant, enabling students to learn in real time more effectively and accurately than ever before.

Outside of education, AI is already having an increasingly broad impact on the U.S. job market.

In early June, Challenger, a U.S. employment consulting firm, listed “artificial intelligence” as one of the reasons for layoffs in its data on layoffs of U.S. companies, and said that about 3,900 jobs in U.S. companies were replaced by this emerging technology.

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