[choeger]

I have yet to encounter a single valuable (in terms of hard currency) use case for GPT besides automating publishing. Yes, you can generate text automatically now in relatively high quality. But that's a business that was struggling before GPT came along and I don't think we actually need that much automatically generated bullshit content. Yes, a language model will help authors to write their articles/books quicker, but that's not a significant fraction of their time spent, hopefully.

I think language models will become a commodity, like a spell checker is today. They might open up the market for translations into more exotic languages (but I don't know how the quality is for such languages and by definition, the market ain't big) and I think every author will use one as part of their workflow (think of technical writers using a language model for the textual parts). Computer games might profit massively in terms of immersion.

No, I don't think that new applications will become that important with language models. I think it's the other way around. There are so many applications that we simply don't need any longer. Language models and image recognition models together will take over the user interface industry. Why bother with web design and user experience if you can just throw the chatbot at your client? That's going to become the real value here.

If I was a junior web developer, I would begin to seek out new programming languages and stacks.