It is already so that in many industries there are hardly any traditional coder jobs on site, and having to explain every step to avoid it going off rails in offshoring assignments is hardly going to be any different to explain it to an AI, when it gets good enough.
Maybe by GPT-20 only, but it will come, and then the roles of architects and business analists are the only ones left.
Agreed. Although... we actually don't know which jobs will be the ones left. For all we know, it will have taken over business analysis, too. Plus, from my experience working on architecture, I suspect that automatizing that part of my job won't be too hard.
For all we know, the only jobs left will be nurse and deep sea miner.
This needs some explanation. What sort of novel problems can a person at kindergarten level solve, that GPT-4 cannot?
Aside from that, it's obvious that GPT-4 is finding solutions to previously unseen problems every minute of the day. What sort of criteria are you using to reject these as "someone else already knew the solution"?
that said, I expect an ai assisted clerk to be order magnitude faster than not. it will be though for people at the bottom of the learning curve for a bit, but in half generation the educational offering will include how to work toghether with ai, massively improving worker productivity
that is not to say it won't have negative impact. there's so much job that we need, currently programmer are in high demand, and it's the one of the highest paying jobs, but that will change, possibly dramatically. I expect people at the top of the chain to be in trouble first (architects and whatnot) because they are the least creative and the one that possibly require the most knowledge, things ai do exceptionally well as of today.