As a programmer that had a year of data scientist under my belt, and some level of understanding of the current machine learning systems, I'm not worried.
The newer research papers coming out are where I would focus if I'm really worried. ChatGPT is really the industrial grade implementation of ideas that aren't exactly new. And the idea itself (LLM) does not contain ability to generate novel logic or solve unlearned problems. In fact, I would go further and say that it does not see your prompt input as a logical problem, but rather a collection of words, and its output involves a transformation of words with its extensively training set. Which would contain logic that was in the training material but itself did not add anything to it, with no guarantee of correctness, only training weights.
There are no guarantee that it didn't also train on the question part of stackoverflow... and you only get answers as good as its training material.
Where I work we attempt to automate away repeatable problems with deterministic frameworks, which are imo far better. I would agree that ChatGPT will probably improve my writing if I were to use it on email and documents, but only in language, not in ideas.
I wouldn't know until they come out, I don't think there are anything that smell like artificial general intelligence right now, pattern matching is much more dominant today.
The newer research papers coming out are where I would focus if I'm really worried. ChatGPT is really the industrial grade implementation of ideas that aren't exactly new. And the idea itself (LLM) does not contain ability to generate novel logic or solve unlearned problems. In fact, I would go further and say that it does not see your prompt input as a logical problem, but rather a collection of words, and its output involves a transformation of words with its extensively training set. Which would contain logic that was in the training material but itself did not add anything to it, with no guarantee of correctness, only training weights.
There are no guarantee that it didn't also train on the question part of stackoverflow... and you only get answers as good as its training material.
Where I work we attempt to automate away repeatable problems with deterministic frameworks, which are imo far better. I would agree that ChatGPT will probably improve my writing if I were to use it on email and documents, but only in language, not in ideas.