As well, there has been zero progress towards eliminating the need for a knowledgeable human participant to converse with the bot. A chat bot will, by definition, always need a human to push the conversation forward and that's the heavy lifting of the whole thing really. I have never seen an example of a chat bot questioning whether the human's query even makes sense let alone dispense constructive advice.
ChatGPT replaces use cases where Google was always a bad fit, not knowledge workers.
We shall see :)
Its interfaces are currently quite primitive too, so its current value may be underrated.
I would love to be able to edit an outline, while watching a filled out essay update side-by-side. The ability to tweak the outline, add hints, and tweak wording or completely take responsibility for particular sentences or paragraphs in the produced essay, would be a massive time saver, and productivity multiplier.
Note that demand for documentation tends to be a secondary, not primary, concern of the products they serve. So demand for documentation is not likely to grow dramatically just because documentation got vastly cheaper to write.
In other words, a productivity bump like this could eliminate a lot of jobs in just one category of knowledge work.
Add in the ability to use sibling tech to generate lively images, diagrams, figures ...
And translate ...
Note that the outline prompts, and other prompts, used to generate a document this way would be orders of magnitude easier to refactor to reflect future changes, than a manually written document ...
Don’t they have a gross imbalance of H1B? Isn’t there a ratio they are supposed to stay above?
> version of slave labor. We... thought that would work forever
We expected forever slavery and freedom simultaneously.. Sounds like our typical hypocracy. This checks out
An excellent word, you just invented!