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I regularly use ChatGPT at work, it's helpful in refining wording for emails and documentation. It's helpful for getting a starting point for Python scripts. I
by carlmr 2y ago
I regularly use ChatGPT at work, it's helpful in refining wording for emails and documentation. It's helpful for getting a starting point for Python scripts. I haven't seen it being a game changer though.
Copilot has been a bit mixed. It kind of gives me too many obviously bad code snippets that I find it super useful. But when I code in a more unfamiliar language it's helpful.
- exe34 2y agothat's been my experience with chat gpt, it allowed me to write some kotlin and sql which I'm not familiar with. I think it's important to remember how far and how fast these things showed up - in just a few years they went from toys to a solid beginning - I'm not sure they can progress the same amount again in the same time, but every s curve has to slow down and every s curve is followed by another eventually - so we don't know if/when the next step change will come, but if it does, it might well put us all out of business overnight.
- carlmr 2y ago>it might well put us all out of business overnight. It might well do that. But worrying about the future like that has no purpose. If the machines become intelligent enough to replace knowledge work they'll be able to improve themselves and mechanical robots too, so work won't exist anymore. If that happens we'll either achieve post scarcity or some kind of post human Armageddon if the system is runs awry.
- exe34 2y agothat's exactly the kind of future worth worrying about - having a backup plan is a good idea. such AI won't be able to expand into the physical world as fast as they can take over knowledge work - so there would still be things worth doing that could be worth something.