Maybe semantics, but... The implication of this post is that ChatGPT is causing the demise of NLP jobs, which, sure, that's true - but I don't think it's fair t

Maybe semantics, but... The implication of this post is that ChatGPT is causing the demise of NLP jobs, which, sure, that's true - but I don't think it's fair to classify this as replacing the job of anyone who works on NLP. This is not the same as GPT replacing a human translator, which is a direct replacement of their role - it's not like ChatGPT is going to start researching NLP. It's just a fairly mundane example of a superior technology outpacing an inferior one. The technology of NLP is being obsoleted, not the job of researching NLP (which is just unnecessary, not being replaced with something else). And in fact, NLP researchers are probably some of the most well positioned people to move laterally to working on transformers and LLMs.