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> Code completion is a great use, some writing tools are nice, I love chatGPT for information lookup (while knowing that it hallucinates), ChatGPT/whatever is g
by wilsonnb3 2y ago
> Code completion is a great use, some writing tools are nice, I love chatGPT for information lookup (while knowing that it hallucinates), ChatGPT/whatever is great for generating icons and some images, and it’s much better at writing in corpo than I am.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that these things provide value anywhere close to 3% of GDP, that estimate is orders of magnitude too high.
3% is the entire economic output of the UK or India. The global agriculture industry is only like 4.5%.
- ben_w 2y agoDepending on which source I use, there are around 27 million software developers in the world. I'm not claiming it doubled our productivity, but I will say that if we earned an average of $100k, we'd be 2.5% of the global economy just by ourselves. I can't find out how many copy editors and copy writers there are in the world (I keep finding numbers for the USA alone). I don't know how many graphical artists there are, nor how many are willing to use the various image generator AI, but I am seeing that stuff pop up IRL. We know at least some lawyers have used it because they didn't check the output for hallucinations and it bit them hard; we don't know how many use it carefully.