While the generation is fun and even suitable for some use cases, I'm particularly interested in its ability to take in language and use it for downstream tasks

While the generation is fun and even suitable for some use cases, I'm particularly interested in its ability to take in language and use it for downstream tasks. A good example is DALL-E[0]. Now, what's interesting to me is the emerging idea of "prompt engineering" where once you spend long enough with a model, you're able to ask it for some pretty specific results. This gives us a foothold in creating interfaces whereby you can query things using natural language. It's not going to replace things like SQL tomorrow (or maybe ever?) but it certainly is promising. [0] https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/