Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360 Group, released a video saying that the impact of AI on ordinary people is being underestimated. Its outbreak is both an opportunity for ordinary people and a hurdle that is difficult for many people to overcome. Many people's jobs are at risk of being replaced by AI. If we fail to seize the dividends of AI, we may be left behind in the AI era. AI evolution is a process of continuous replacement and optimization of human jobs. According to a report by a US consulting company, 50% of existing occupations in the world will be replaced by AI. The emergence of DeepSeek has accelerated this process.
Zhou Hongyi said that he originally didn’t believe that AI could replace programmers, and he also felt that AI could not replace the ability to write articles. However, DeepSeek’s recent improvements in capabilities, including its rapid promotion of global AI levels, made him believe that the articles written by DeepSeek this year can exceed 90% of people, and AI programming can probably replace 80% of front-end junior and intermediate engineers.
"I used to think that the low threshold for the use of AI and the almost free cost should bring universal benefits, narrow the social gap, and make everyone more equal. But now it seems that the reality may be cruel, it may further widen the distance between people, and this trend is irreversible. Because although DeepSeek is very powerful, different people have different ways of using DeepSeek." Zhou Hongyi said.
Zhou Hongyi emphasized that the quality of using AI as a tool to assist work output mainly depends on two key factors. One is the quality of the questions asked by the user, and the second is the screening, verification and selection of the AI output results by the questioner. "Research on complex tasks has found that elites get greater help from AI, while ordinary employees may not only not improve, but even regress."