Is ChatGPT Poised to Disrupt the Database Industry?
OpenAI's chatbot could become an intuitive query engine, a DBA assistant, or even a data scientist.
ChatGPT has the world’s attention. From its modest beginnings as an AI chatbot for things like customer service or copy writing, ChatGPT is quickly taking on wider scope. That includes potential uses in database management—for everything from database queries and administration to infrastructure decisions.
Consider these possibilities:
ChatGPT could have a role within the data software stack, for example as an intuitive query engine.
It might be used to help with database administrator (DBA) tasks, such as writing scripts and generating tables.
It could serve as an expert advisor on products and services, such as determining whether to use MySQL or Postgres for a particular project.
Ideas about how to use ChatGPT are bubbling up as more people give it a try. Just two months after ChatGPT’s debut, 30 million people were using it, according to an article by New York Times writer Kevin Roose. A Time magazine headline called ChatGPT “the fastest-growing Web platform ever.”
Yet, despite this…