ChatGPT can churn out usable code for your project. A human can just go in and tweak it.
I understand Microsoft has AI tech support now. Apparently you can pay for a human or use AI for free. I don't know if this is live yet, but soon. Info comes from employees.
So you use the free AI and it's buggy, but improves. Pretty soon, it's the only thing available and you do pay for it. This is just like ebay and paypal... two things I got onto before there were fees of any kind. So job loss, obviously and this is just one company.
Further... eventually, people will no longer have these skills... which is what happened with astrology. Hardly anyone knows how to calculate a chart by hand because, why??
Worked with a gal who teaches at a prep school. They are having big trouble with chatgdt.
@elsa Not surprised. We're a lazy species.
My friend retired in 2019 from teaching at the university level. She had trouble with students doing the copy and paste from internet articles. One was so flagrant and clumsy, he'd copied the source's library hours. He was called for copyright infringement.
Decades ago, a coworker related a conversion with his nephew. The coworker told the nephew that writing papers wasn't a problem, just copy and paste from a good source, like he'd done. Being the old Capricorn, I looked him straight in the face and said, "You didn't learn shit, did you? Writing papers is to teach thinking, compiling information.." ---- Maybe I was the office b=itch.
I know this exists, but I have no desire to even try it out. Definitely don't want to use it for any kind of work purpose. I don't want to erode my brain further than I already have.
Microsoft has just announced Copilot, its own integration of ChatGPT into all its Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams etc. Only a matter of time before it's in the OS of all computers & phones. You won't be able to avoid it... I expect it will pop up and correct your ideas for you. 
ChatGPT has over 100million users in 2 months.
Soon, if you want help, you'll have to fight it out with a machine. I feel we're (as a collective) bound to become dependent on it because it will be the primary way to access information. I
@allie120 this is a bit shocking considering how poor we were but we had a set of encyclopedias in our home and Henry (a professor of English and Library Sciences, had a old giant dictionary, complete with the stand, in his home. He took these things home when they were being retired from University of Arizona.
Of course the kids today have the internet... but it's occupied and controlled, to their detriment, in case they happen to live in a country that is being elevated while ours is taken down.
@elsa Yes! My mom would be able to get one book of the encyclopedia set when she bought a certain amount of groceries at the grocery store. I don’t even remember which one or how much, but I was so excited. And then somehow we got another set from someone, a second hand one. I love that you were able to have access to those. And dictionaries. We had them. We were just regular people but I’m glad they felt it was important to have.
Yes, the internet is so easy but as you say and as we have all seen, it can be changed in an instance. Hard copies…I still have my dictionaries, my Bible.
I will buy another huge, beautiful dictionary for my granddaughters, now that the youngest will be taught not to tear books.