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Question of the Month: How will AI affect your engineering career in the next 3 to 5 years?

dychen

e14 Question of the Month

ChatGPT, Bard, and MidJourney seem like all anyone in the IT world can talk about these days, but how does it affect the hardware engineering community? How do you think AI will affect the careers of Electrical Engineers? Take the poll and in the Comments section, let us know how you think the future of hardware engineering will look.

  • I selected other.  I find I am over the initial hype and excitement of something like ChatGPT.  I use it less now than I did a couple of months ago.  What I mainly use it for now is to get an overview of a topic I know little about.  Why don't I use Google for that, you might wonder?  Well, my observation is that Google isn't as good as it used to be for finding that type of information.  It's focused too much on the commercial end.  To its credit  though, if I want to find out the nearest restaurants in my area then 'nobody' does it better than Google.

  • in reply to dougw

    I expect it will make them easier in the sense that what takes, e.g., 1 month today will take much less in the future, and tools will help, e.g., with timing closure or design to a power usage goal. However, that just means engineers will be loaded up with more projects so I agree with your point that "more will be expected". 

  • AI will affect everything we do in much more radical ways than can be envisioned right now, but it won't eliminate engineering jobs or make them easier, because more will be expected of engineers as their tools get better.

  • I'm not a hardware Engineer, but since AI is known to harvest the works of others, I would say that a heavy reliance on it will net heavy litigation.  Engineers will still be needed to cull what is proprietary, unique or patented from what is common.

  • The engineering office I work for is pretty small. AI wont be used to do anything substantial in the next 3-5 years for custom designed control panels on our team.

    What I'd like AI to do is enable communication to customers and connecting the customers who best fit our talents to their needs - without a sneaker net of sales middle men.