It can do a lot of cool things! You can build a house with it, you can smith metal with it, and you can even use it as a weapon.
The thing is, right now, we're so amazed by its potential that we're finding a lot of uses that, while technically possible, aren't a great fit.
Technically you can use the hammer as an axe, a hole digger, and a backscratcher, but there are far better tools for the job.
I can imagine uses for generated art, which may at least be aesthetically pleasing. But I can't conceive of any end for computer generated text.
Just look at what is happening in education right now. It is ultimately going to force a complete reinvention of the written assignment. This is just the beginning, even if the tool appears to be a mostly-useless toy for any real-world applications.
They're usually fairly obvious, but it's hard to prove. Unlike much ordinary copypaste plagiarism, you can't trivially reject it as cheating. That forces teachers to think of new ways to test student knowledge... an interesting challenge, if not exactly a "use".
If by complete reinvention you mean returning to what we used to do, which is write essays with a pencil during class without using a computer.
> This is just the beginning, even if the tool appears to be a mostly-useless toy for any real-world applications.
It is not possible to tell on this side where LLMs (or any invention) fall on the spectrum of 3D tv to the smartphone. It will become apparent in the future and 50% of us will have been wrong but anyone who claims to know is just BSing.
I don’t understand how someone can say this
There have probably never been poems written that explain the particular niche physical phenomenon that I’ve had GPT-3 generate for me.