You realize that near human-level AI for $20/month is a bargain in a country where typical mobile phone plan is $25+, and is basically universally affordable?
I think it's actually very close to a human, and is already better than a lot of developers I've worked with. Many are mailing it in producing 20-30 lines of code a week. This will absolutely destroy the low end. Now one JR developer can massively eclipse them.
I've tried it. It's truly incredible what it can produce, but it often produces the wrong thing. Furthermore, it cannot do logical inferences, and it cannot do mathematics.
In short, the code it produces has to be reviewed by programmers who know what they're doing. Sometimes that speeds things up to have it produce the code and we review it, but sometimes it slows things down and it's easier to just write it yourself.
I see ChatGPT as an extremely powerful tool that can boost a programmer's productivity, but despite its incredible capability it cannot be trusted in ways that we can trust human programmers.
In fact, I'd argue it might already be superhuman in the same way the Ocean of Solaris could be. Think about it. The Ocean can't drive or do arithmetic either. It is never shown that it evolves over time.
I love how we have some incredible AI that saves hundreds or thousands of hours a year and the in typical fashion the replies below are complaining about the cost. Rofl
“The Great Depression (1929–1939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. […] Devastating effects were seen in both rich and poor countries with falling personal income, prices, tax revenues, and profits.”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression)
Maybe people in rich countries can learn to subsist on that much. Combined with the feudalism model that I have elsewhere in this thread promulgrated, this will define the living conditions of the 99 percent as we approach the singularity.
The implication of my point was that I expect this to be the first in an endless series of new prices, tiers, and SKUs, each one offering the most power to those who can pay the most.
