I think they have some objective use. It’s been a long while since I’ve had to front-to-back a device manual. Now I just dump it into the llm and use it as a easy natural language search indexer for the content with built in summary features.
Considering the cost, at least in a vacuum, is a few hours of my time setting up a local model to run on a gpu I already had (pretty pixels make me go “Ooooooo Aaaaaahhh”) vs 8+ hours of reading a manual for an appliance I’m going to configure once; I’d say it’s objectively a productive tool in it’s current capacity. If you mean to say productive for society I’ve no clue, and I think there’s far too many variables for any person to reasonably know.
I guess it’s fine as long as AI can be productive. Maybe one day we’ll find out. The LLMs that are widely available have not gotten there yet.
I think they have some objective use. It’s been a long while since I’ve had to front-to-back a device manual. Now I just dump it into the llm and use it as a easy natural language search indexer for the content with built in summary features.
I meant productive in the sense that they add more value than their cost. I don’t think they are useless.
Considering the cost, at least in a vacuum, is a few hours of my time setting up a local model to run on a gpu I already had (pretty pixels make me go “Ooooooo Aaaaaahhh”) vs 8+ hours of reading a manual for an appliance I’m going to configure once; I’d say it’s objectively a productive tool in it’s current capacity. If you mean to say productive for society I’ve no clue, and I think there’s far too many variables for any person to reasonably know.