@SydBarrett: the automatic loom and the steam engine did pretty much the same thing, probably at greater pace than so-called AI can. Unemployment became lower and overall wealth and quality of life higher as a result and today there are now millions of open jobs to do maintenance on the machines. We also have shortages of people that can build an AI-oriented infrastructure, both physically and logically, the explosion in chip manufacturing that will be required, it will be more like the Internet when it became well established, everyone became a web developer overnight.
In their current state, the current models may be good enough to augment a good entry level employee in coding, accounting etc, it’s a better search engine and may be able to replace ghostwriters and anyone producing such derivative crap. So white collar jobs are more likely to be replaced, AI plumbers, electricians etc will require AGI and very advanced robots which humanity is at least a century away from if at all possible to do economically.