Just watched Linus and Luke play with ChatGPT-powered Bing on WAN Show - this is insane, what that thing can do, even when you consider its mistakes and what would seem like outright failures.
Almost a decade ago I was looking for new furniture for my room. I wanted a certain type of "angle" desk and a some... Dunno, "cabinets" thingies, with glass covering most (but not all) of them, so that I could place my anime figurines in it. And I wanted the desk and the cabinets to match as much as possible and be reasonable in price. It took me literal days of browsing to finally find a proper match. This thing, though... I am pretty sure it would be able to help me find it in an hour, if not a minute.
It also shows what searches it is doing, which leads me to believe, that for developers searching for solutions can become easier. I had cases, when I searched for an algorithm for something, did not find anything suitable and then "split" the algorithm into several smaller ones to find examples of those smaller pieces. It looks like this version of Bing can do that for you. The amount of time this thing can save is insane.
That said, I still do not believe AI will be able to replace creators or customer service-like jobs. At the least, I do not think it will ever be able to deal with customers facing bugs in a product, because those often happen in places and ways that developers can't predict (especially when caused by specific human interaction), and if you can't predict something - you won't be able to teach the AI that thing. Similar with artists: you can't always predict how the creation process will go, sometimes you start doing having 1 thing in mind, but during the process it becomes something completely different, and that can't be taught to AI, since it can be completely random.
But still, I think the productivity leap, that will happen when such AI tools will become not just widespread, but "mundane" is what people were hoping to happen with voice assistants. This time it feels way more real, though.
