Why do you think ChatGPT will effect employment for programmers? If ChatGPT makes a few more major leaps forward it might be able to make me more productive (it is not even close currently for my work), I don’t see how current AI models will ever be able to replace my job.
If it improves an order of magnitude it might be able to make me more productive and I will be able to charge more for my time.
I wouldn’t even begin to know how to ask ChatGPT to help me with some of the more complex problems I am dealing with on a day to day basis. As far as I understand these models don’t build up any understand and even their memory is an illusion, previous conversations is just reevaluated with every new question. I assume this limits the complexity of what it can do, and does not seem scalable to me.
I see it being helpful in generating function names etc, perhaps adding more context to autocompletion tools for better suggestions, better front-end to Google so search becomes more efficient. And hopefully it helps me write the boilerplate in every email.
I honestly hopes it improves a lot, I see only benefits for our jobs. But currently not ready for serious work. Although a very impressive feat of engineering.
Isn’t this a bit like saying that cars will never replace horse-drawn carriages, as they max out at 5mph, but might be useful for cleaning up manure?
Or perhaps Ke Jie who claimed that he would be able to beat AlphaGo, after seeing Lee Sedol beat it in one game. AlphaGo won easily.
This is not a criticism per se, everybody else in this thread is also assessing AI from its current capability, when OP asked about future capabilities.
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Why do you think ChatGPT will effect employment for programmers? If ChatGPT makes a few more major leaps forward it might be able to make me more productive (it is not even close currently for my work), I don’t see how current AI models will ever be able to replace my job.
If it improves an order of magnitude it might be able to make me more productive and I will be able to charge more for my time.
I wouldn’t even begin to know how to ask ChatGPT to help me with some of the more complex problems I am dealing with on a day to day basis. As far as I understand these models don’t build up any understand and even their memory is an illusion, previous conversations is just reevaluated with every new question. I assume this limits the complexity of what it can do, and does not seem scalable to me.
I see it being helpful in generating function names etc, perhaps adding more context to autocompletion tools for better suggestions, better front-end to Google so search becomes more efficient. And hopefully it helps me write the boilerplate in every email.
I honestly hopes it improves a lot, I see only benefits for our jobs. But currently not ready for serious work. Although a very impressive feat of engineering.
Isn’t this a bit like saying that cars will never replace horse-drawn carriages, as they max out at 5mph, but might be useful for cleaning up manure?
Or perhaps Ke Jie who claimed that he would be able to beat AlphaGo, after seeing Lee Sedol beat it in one game. AlphaGo won easily.
This is not a criticism per se, everybody else in this thread is also assessing AI from its current capability, when OP asked about future capabilities.
There’s far too much complacency.
I am not saying AI will never replace my job, just not the current generation models.
What are the problems you are dealing with on a day to day basis that ChatGPT could not possibly help with?