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It looks like it will be able to do every non-programming office job first.

I agree completely. People are forgetting that programming is a difficult technical and creative task. If an AI can master that, it should be able to master many tasks which are far less technical and/or far less creative.

I'm looking forward to seeing how AI manages accounting, that's a field that requires even more creativity than programming.

Why do you believe accounting requires more creativity than software development?

When the domain of possible software projects is infinite, I find this really hard to imagine.

It's a "creative accounting" pun. Think of filing dinners at nice restaurants as business expenses, but cranked up to 11.

Which is what we call "hallucinations" in ChatGPT, it is really good at that. It works really well for creative accounting, similarly creative programming just crashes your app.

And that is the whole reason ChatGPT will replace accounting and such jobs before programming, because those jobs are much more tolerant of inaccurate statements than programming is.

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