Another minor #ChatGPT use case discovered: I can ask it to convert a bunch of references acquired from, say, MathSciNet, and format them as \bibitems in a LaTeX bibliography environment. (I know MathSciNet already has a facility to export its citations to bibtex, but I still like the older thebibliography environment for some projects.)
I remember that was my AHA moment about what AGI _really_ will look like, when I asked it to reformat a list of arXiv authors into a different format. My prompt was something like this:
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Here is a list of names formatted as [Firstname Lastname], please convert this into a list formatted as [LASTNAME, Firstname;]. "..."
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... and I got the correct list complete with capitalization and punctuation. It flawlessly abstracted my example and applied it to the input. No more programming required – just a natural language description of what I needed.
:-)
@boris_steipe @tao But beware, when I did something similar recently, it changed or made up some names!