I posted a video to YouTube last month showing some ways ChatGPT might be used by people learning and teaching other languages [1]. From the comments, it seems that some people have already started using it for just that purpose. It should get even more useful once developers using the APIs start customizing the interface and prompts for language learners.
As I show in the video, ChatGPT is very good at explaining the meanings of words in context and creating example sentences of words in particular meanings. It can also serve as a conversation partner for people wanting to practice using a language interactively; once spoken interfaces are widely available, it will be even better for that purpose.
While it can correct learners’ grammatical mistakes pretty well, it is bad at explaining why it made those corrections. Its inability to explain grammar correctly seems similar to its widely reported failures at quantitative reasoning.
I also made a video about the possible long-term implications of ChatGPT and similar software for second-language learning [2].
I plan to make a video soon showing its translation ability. In the tests I’ve done translating from Japanese to English, it is superior to Google Translate, DeepL, etc. in its ability to give context-sensitive translations. It also translates novel dialogue much better than the other machine translation engines.
I suspect, I'll be able to use it to help with my reports and a few brochures I want to put together.
I write my content by hand because I have to make phone calls to get some of the information, and care a great deal about concise writing. However I definitely see a use for it for businesses that just want a blog pronto.
What this means for the future of internet content is worrying, but it just accelerates a trend. It's damn near impossible to find genuine information these days.