> Most of the people asking the question "to do _what_, exactly" seem to have not much of a "knowledge worker" experience.
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.
As I already suggested: in my experience, certainty that GPT will be transformational in a field of knowledge work seems to actually be inversely related to experience of that field. A response whose certainty that GPT could be transformational to the stuff I worked on exceeded only by ignorance of what any of that stuff was is quite a good demonstration of that point...
(and really, there's nothing particularly special about any of the stuff I've worked on, it's just GPT doesn't have relevant knowledge or a path to acquiring it so doesn't generate remotely adequate responses, struggles even more with novel concepts and would be terrible at real time discussion even if suitable interfaces to it existed and were unobjectionable, and that's before we get started on the privacy implications)
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.