Right, I'm not disputing that it can be an extremely useful tool. I often use it myself to bounce ideas or to ask an open-ended questions that search engines are failing to answer, with mixed results.
My belief is that there's a huge rift between GPT-n being an extremely useful tool (which it often is) and it being able to outright replace your job.
What is the difference between me using a search engine and using a machine learning tool? The knowledge is external to me in both cases, I am just the interface between business requirements and the technology being used.
If I use an AI to use external knowledge faster then how is this supposed to threaten me? If I am a garbage scavenger and I get my resources from digging in the landfill, then wouldn't a robot that detects the valuable waste make me wealthier? I still have to pull it out myself. Ok next iteration there is a robot that can take the garbage out the land fill but not to my house. Ok next iteration is a self driving robot that can also transport the garbage to my home where I sell it. Ok next iteration the robot sells my garbage.
The real question in this situation is, does the robot cost me more than I get out of it?
My belief is that there's a huge rift between GPT-n being an extremely useful tool (which it often is) and it being able to outright replace your job.