Perhaps this writer has confused ChatGPT with GitHub Copilot. The purpose of ChatGPT (as stated by the devs) is to help improve the ability of AI agents to par

Perhaps this writer has confused ChatGPT with GitHub Copilot. The purpose of ChatGPT (as stated by the devs) is to help improve the ability of AI agents to participate in conversational dialog. In other words, they're trying to make a software agent that can take chat calls for support and stuff like that. Copilot, on the other hand, is (sometimes) tasked with writing code from a concept or comment and -- even more often -- used to "autocomplete" some line of code you are already typing, or to suggest the next line of code that's most likely to appear in a sequence. NEITHER program, however, is capable of solving any new problems or creating any information -- such as information about how to write software that does something which has not been done before. Both ChatGPT and Copilot (and all other LLM software) is only capable of spitting out the next most likely word based on what you have typed and what it has analyzed in the past. Therefore, neither program will be able to offer us any new ideas or solve any new problems. Neither program can create software architecture nor perform debugging. Having said that, many companies will pay for ChatGPT because it's a nicer and faster chat agent than the ones we have now -- even better than many of the human ones for support-type tasks. And Copilot is a fantastic timesaver that I gladly pay for because it often does suggest the next correct line of code based on my own typing.