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It hallucinates at a percentage that makes it completely unusuable for all of those tasks. If it's strictly inferior to non-LLM solutions for all of these problems then clearly you're better off not using it at all.
You can search up an itinerary for popular tourism locations.
There are platforms, free or paid, that teach you a second language instead of making random shit up.
There are countless DnD campaigns you can find online or tools to make planning them easy.
You can learn that 2+2=4 and not 5, or logic puzzles which are variations of common ones that ChatGPT are incapable of parsing due to its statistical nature, for free from sites like Khan Academy.
ChatGPT is shit, mate. It has no concept of anything, it just generates the next token in a chain of tokens until it produces some garbage which roughly approximates an answer. Why not just get an actual answer 100% accurate to human output from a real person?
I think you're really overestimating how much it fails. I've had great success with language translation, and for everything I've studied using it, it can be used as a great aggregator for tools and resources. Way faster than digging through SEO crap spewed out everywhere on the web. Another thing to realise is that the traditional search engine is dead. It sucks at indexing compared to AI. I don't know about you, but I don't like having to end at least 60% of my searches with 'reddit' to find a non-SEO result.
Personally, I don't know what most people use AI for, but it's been fantastic for turning natural language questions into great leads for further research (which I do with a normal browser). Definitely a huge time save not having to start my research by skimming 15 articles looking for a specific keyword which makes a concept click, or to even discover a concept at all.