As with many things "AI", the benefit is not to replace humans, but to free them from the tedium of doing the tedious non-creative parts of their job, so that t

As with many things "AI", the benefit is not to replace humans, but to free them from the tedium of doing the tedious non-creative parts of their job, so that they have more resources to do the parts that require creativity and human reasoning. What the new generation of models is showing us, and what we've been gradually seeing over decades of AI research, is that there is a lot more tedium and a lot less creativity in our work than we thought. Look at how much this repo got right, even if there are bugs and nonsensical sections (I didn't see any upon quick skim, but I've also never implemented my own language before). It would take so much less time to debug this program than it would to type all that code from scratch. AI consistently turns out to be a human effort accelerator, and not a human effort replacer. Maybe in the future it will be good enough to replace humans, but even what is now tried-and-tested technology like machine translation, spam classification, and object detection in images still requires a human in the loop to double-check the results. I'm pessimistic about the AI takeover, but I'm becoming very optimistic about AI precipitating a small industrial revolution. My only concern is about who gets to reap the benefits, but that debate predates the first industrial revolution.