Oh my! It does not really matter if this is actually self-aware, but in terms of productivity: well it has the potential to be revolutionary. No longer does a person need to know how to program. Just talk to a computer and the computer will generate the code to execute such task.
> No longer does a person need to know how to program.
I think this is getting caught up in media sensationalism. ChatGPT is regurgitating copied code from various sources. A way to look at this is if you could type out questions to Stack Overflow, then it responded by giving you code that most closely matches to what you asked. The thing about that is it is taking and searching code that thousands of humans have created, "filtering" based on question asked, and giving it back to you. Instead of a person doing the hard work of searching Stack Overflow and other sources, ChatGPT can be the new centralized source to get copied segments of code.
Copying and pasting code from various sources is not anything new. Because a person has copied a piece of code from somewhere doesn't mean they don't need to know programming, what is going on, or how to troubleshoot it. Some people, who are being lazy, might think that ChatGPT is a way out of studying and understanding what is being done, and they will sooner or later found out that it isn't.
