We’ll come to robots later, but the truth is that for a vast range of tasks in the world economy today all you need is access to a computer; most of global GDP is mediated in some way through screen-based interfaces amenable to an AI. The challenge is in advancing what AI developers call hierarchical planning, stitching multiple goals and subgoals

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Much of what we do as modern people—at work and beyond—is to process information and generate action. GPT-4 will massively speed your ability to do these things, and with greater breadth and scope. Within a few years, this copilot will fall somewhere between useful and essential to most professionals and many other sorts of workers. Without GPT-4,

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The future belongs to people whose work cannot be easily reduced to a dataset, and who can use AI to become even better at what they do. Some jobs, like competitive programming or routine software development, are vulnerable because we can create clear benchmarks for performance. Others, like Tyler’s work or K’s website design, are safer because th... See more