It has unbelievable practical use. ChatGPT is a personal tutor on any subject you can think of. It's more that 90% of people can't even be bothered to google the answer to a question they have, despite having a personal computer and oracle in their front pocket.
I'm using an LLM to teach me interactively how LLMs work and how to integrate LLMs into our products. It's replaced 90% of my googling/stack overflow. Every engineer in our company is using Copilot and ChatGPT to write software.
I have yet to see someone apply ChatGPT or other LLM in this way and not regret it or ditch it later.
Honestly i'm more worried about the ones who will use it this way and assume it's always correct. It is too often incorrect for anything I've ever done with it.
> i'm more worried about the ones who will use it this way and assume it's always correct
There are plenty of folks who don't fall into this trap.
Example: Me. I am fully aware that LLM generated code can be wrong or worse, contain disastrous errors. But being aware of that, and looking for the things I know from experience it commonly gets wrong, allows me to use it as an incredibly powerful tool in my workflow.
Our blind spot in vetting information is kind of like our blind spot when looking for something we have lost. We don't double check what we are sure of. To me, that is the most serious challenge when trying to learn using LLMs.
The difference to me is that with search you can explicitly search only in trusted sources (with e.g. site:...) if you choose to and you get transparency about where the data is coming from.
New Bing is a slight improvement in that you get some transparency about where it's getting information from and can tell it to prioritise accuracy, but can't actually explicitly tell it to use a subset of the web that you personally trust.
I'm using an LLM to teach me interactively how LLMs work and how to integrate LLMs into our products. It's replaced 90% of my googling/stack overflow. Every engineer in our company is using Copilot and ChatGPT to write software.