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LLM's are worthless and I'm skeptical they'll ever be otherwise. I think for a program that works roughly like ChatGPT from a user's perspective to ever achieve usefulness would require a whole different algorithm.
Aight so I've been holding off on making conversation since I generally disagree with most of the negative sentiment towards them. But for real, you think they're worthless? Legit at their present moment they've got so much immediate value; how much have you used them?
I've pulled tremendous value from them. In my personal life, GPT-4 walked me through developing a Kotlin android app for my smart watch so that I could have access to it more easily and conveniently. It's provided me guidance and knowledge, even teaching me German and Spanish and holding practice conversations with me. At work, it's helped me write programs to improve my productivity, taught me how to use software like Excel, and just overal helps me be more capable.
And all that is just one person's value from it. Just imagine what value it's creating right now for the millions who use it. Just imagine what it could do in the hands of innumerable virtuous and malicious individuals. It is so far from worthless
Do you trust that the German it's teaching you is real German? All it's trained to do is to generate something that could pass as German.
I don't speak German, but so far my conversations in Spanish have been flawless. So I would trust ChatGPT with language in that regard.
FYI: It's the same with german. I think you're quite alright with the 'big' languages. I didn't spend much time with ChatGPT, but even some smaller language models speak multiple languages well enough. I tend to use english, i think the sentences are a bit more expressive and nuanced. But with ChatGPT that's probably barely noticable.