> In the next 10 years, AI/robots will generate wealth at an unprecedented scale. Food, clothing and shelter will be plentiful.
GPT cannot create food, clothing, or shelter. The article talks about "automating away all the jobs", but GPT does not automate farming, making clothes, construction work, driving a car, delivering packages... Anything that requires interfacing with the real-world (i.e. outside of language), is not what GPT is doing. E.g. I wouldn't say research in self-driving cars has advanced now that LLMs exist. The magic machine you describe is exactly what GPT can NOT do.
In my opinion, GPT is a huge leap forward, but in one particular niche (language-based tasks). It does not advance the state-of-the-art in automation of physical systems, so it cannot replace any job that has a physical part to it.
GPT cannot create food, clothing, or shelter. The article talks about "automating away all the jobs", but GPT does not automate farming, making clothes, construction work, driving a car, delivering packages... Anything that requires interfacing with the real-world (i.e. outside of language), is not what GPT is doing. E.g. I wouldn't say research in self-driving cars has advanced now that LLMs exist. The magic machine you describe is exactly what GPT can NOT do.
In my opinion, GPT is a huge leap forward, but in one particular niche (language-based tasks). It does not advance the state-of-the-art in automation of physical systems, so it cannot replace any job that has a physical part to it.