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Honestly I feel people are using them completely wrong.
Their real power is their ability to understand language and context.
Turning natural language input into commands that can be executed by a traditional software system is a huge deal.
Microsoft released an AI powered auto complete text box and it's genius.
Currently you have to type an exact text match in an auto complete box. So if you type cats but the item is called pets you'll get no results. Now the ai can find context based matches in the auto complete list.
This is their real power.
Also they're amazing at generating non factual based things. Stories, poems etc.
Exactly. The big problem with LLMs is that they're so good at mimicking understanding that people forget that they don't actually have understanding of anything beyond language itself.
The thing they excel at, and should be used for, is exactly what you say - a natural language interface between humans and software.
Like in your example, an LLM doesn't know what a cat is, but it knows what words describe a cat based on training data - and for a search engine, that's all you need.