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The impact of artificial intelligence on the Hungary job market

Cheryl

Hello everyone,

Artificial intelligence is driving major changes to the job market in Hungary : task automation, evolving job roles and rise of new skills. For expats and soon-to-be expats, this transformation may raise some key questions on professional opportunities:

Which sectors in Hungary are being most affected by AI?

What new professional opportunities might AI create for expats?

Which skills should be highlighted to stand out in the job market?

What AI-related changes have you noticed in your own professional experience in Hungary?

Share your insights and experience!

Thank you for your contribution.

Cheryl
Expat.com Team

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sjbabilon5

Till now I do see little impact on the Hungarian job market.


Several things start to take root:

  1. Most of the minor graphical related jobs soon will be redundant: AI is quite good to make basic pictures, like icons, fantasy, sci-fi. cyberpunk, futuristic, etc.
  2. Many present worker do started to use AI in an extensive way: noticeable on serious mistakes, AND quantity of mistakes, as AI is far less effective than humans, regularly present false information, not accurate data, AND straightforward "hallucinates" made up information, mainly literature list, events, examples, precedents, etc...
  3. AI in general quite bad in writing, so when someone uses it for "ghostwriting" is more than noticeable (mainly OpenAI, Gemini), or Grok hallucinates during that (uploaded base document, it by own will changed, and rewritten it, then analyze its imagination, referenced its imaginations and continue based on that instead of human input)


Overall:

AI can be helpful, but rely on it is gross fault, especially when someone try to replace roles, works, and hyper-critical human oversight.

Also must know in  detail which type of AI good and bad in what roles, also their censorship and bias.


In general the strongest ones actually the Chinese based, for search Grok/ Deep Seek, for minor support: OpenAI, most of the others are the very low end of quality among the major ones (like Gemini).

Most of the notable picture and video generation is locked behind paywalls, but some worth it. 

Marilyn Tassy

AI could be very useful but it could also take away jobs that are really just place holder type jobs.

For example, went to the eye doctor;

While sitting in the waiting area a few times we noticed workers in groups doing nearly nothing.

A big strong young man was literally carrying a empty wicker basket down the hall!

2 women another time were re arranging un used small office table and chair in a store room, 2 women came over to chat with them so 4 people really doing nothing for over 30 mins but collecting a paycheck all the same.

In oncology you take a number to wait to be called to the front desk where they will get your file and tell you to wait till your number is called on the board to see the doctors.

4 to 5 women at the desk, still sometimes wait an 45 mins to an hour to be called to the desk only to be told to sit down and wait some more.

I am sure AI could stream line all the waste.

Checking into another doctors office, you take a number , stand in line and 2 clerks double check if you have an appointment or make one for you.

Most times only one is helping while the other is off doing whatever.

Seems like they could do the work with half the staff.

My husband got crazy when he saw the big strong young man walking around with a wicker basket in his hand. IDK, maybe Easter came early?

sjbabilon5

@Marilyn Tassy

You are right about the useless roles and jobs, and low quality workforce.

Actually in the service (/ office) sector/ public (government/ city) about 50-85% of jobs, roles can be deleted depending on the country.

But it will never happen as would lead massive unemployment + most female jobs loss. Never happens hardly even in a theocratic dictatorship.


But it hardly have much connection with AI.

The real roles/ work hardly can be done by AI as now.

Marilyn Tassy

@Marilyn Tassy
You are right about the useless roles and jobs, and low quality workforce.
Actually in the service (/ office) sector/ public (government/ city) about 50-85% of jobs, roles can be deleted depending on the country.
But it will never happen as would lead massive unemployment + most female jobs loss. Never happens hardly even in a theocratic dictatorship.
But it hardly have much connection with AI.
The real roles/ work hardly can be done by AI as now. - @sjbabilon5

  Yes, we still need doctors but allot of the support staff jobs could be filled by AI.

I personally like it the old way, personal and with humans behind a desk.

Then again I am odd, went to a cell phone shop the other day to ask questions about Sim cards; Told the man I never owned and hardly ever use a cell phone and never did a text. He looked at me like I was a rare  animal in a zoo!

Personally I like snail mail and land line phones, the 70,s were good times!

fluffy2560

@Marilyn Tassy
You are right about the useless roles and jobs, and low quality workforce.
Actually in the service (/ office) sector/ public (government/ city) about 50-85% of jobs, roles can be deleted depending on the country.
But it will never happen as would lead massive unemployment + most female jobs loss. Never happens hardly even in a theocratic dictatorship.
But it hardly have much connection with AI.
The real roles/ work hardly can be done by AI as now.  - @sjbabilon5
Yes, we still need doctors but allot of the support staff jobs could be filled by AI.
I personally like it the old way, personal and with humans behind a desk.
Then again I am odd, went to a cell phone shop the other day to ask questions about Sim cards; Told the man I never owned and hardly ever use a cell phone and never did a text. He looked at me like I was a rare animal in a zoo!
Personally I like snail mail and land line phones, the 70,s were good times! - @Marilyn Tassy

Oh dunno, I remember the 1970s as being a technology desert.  The phone in my hand is faster than the fastest computers of that age.   I don't think AI will ever replace medical staff.  I think it could help them but a human will always need to check the work.  It is after all programmed by humans and they make mistakes.


I don't think a robot could even make a cup of tea.  Not properly anyway.  It's got nuances that a machine will never understand.  I do wonder if they will be able to make biological machines with a small number of brain cells to do specific tasks.  I did read a while back they made an artificial organism using entirely designed DNA.  I don't remember what it did.  But if it had reproductive capacity, who knows what it would do if it got out. 


I've seen the movie Alien!

sjbabilon5

@Marilyn Tassy

Oh, I younger than you, still actually in recent years folks with touchscreen "phones" made photos from my real mobile phone, as it is belongs to the 90's, and use only gsm, no infra/ blue/ net.


I do like the old, working types.

sjbabilon5

Oh dunno, I remember the 1970s as being a technology desert. The phone in my hand is faster than the fastest computers of that age. I don't think AI will ever replace medical staff. I think it could help them but a human will always need to check the work. It is after all programmed by humans and they make mistakes.
I don't think a robot could even make a cup of tea. Not properly anyway. It's got nuances that a machine will never understand. I do wonder if they will be able to make biological machines with a small number of brain cells to do specific tasks. I did read a while back they made an artificial organism using entirely designed DNA. I don't remember what it did. But if it had reproductive capacity, who knows what it would do if it got out.

I've seen the movie Alien! - @fluffy2560

I love the tech desert sometimes, often intentionally.

Like prefer to use classical maps, instead of digital.


Funny:

There are "smart" coffee machines: make coffee but needs wifi to do so.


AI will not replace humans in the foreseeable future in important roles, like medical - we agree on that.


Biological machines:

Did you mean bio-nanobots?

sjbabilon5

@Marilyn Tassy

Find a video about useless tech "work"force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CqXfvf-Awc