From my perspective it’s just _confusing_ to work in AI right now. We have some massive models that are doing some really neat stuff, and apparently hundreds of millions of people are using them—but I keep wondering: to do _what_, exactly? I’m not asking what the models can do, I’m asking what people want the models to do every day, all the time. I’ve been shown some neat pictures people made that they thought were c…
Most of the people asking the question "to do _what_, exactly" seem to have not much of a "knowledge worker" experience. Every non-tech person I showed GPT4 to was after a few tests immediately using it to speed up parts of their daily work. Most impactful is how it destroys the blank page/getting started barrier, second how easy it is to substantially change/adapt/refocus produced work. It is like having an incredib…
From personal experience I'd say the opposite: GPT lacks the specialist knowledge to produce useful writing or yield accurate answers in any of the markets I've worked in (I'll grant that less niche markets exist, and that GPT is pretty good at fixing the writing of people that lack English language writing skill) and it seems like people egging GPT as replacing most of those roles are all showcasing hypothetical "generate a website for an imaginary product with minimal brief" kind of situations which GPT excels at because there aren't any real world knowledge worker constraints imposed on their solution. That's definitely not to say it has no use, but lots of less technologically impressive accomplishments like data entry wizards and templates also have use without being considered transformative.