| But isn't that candy example non-sensical? In what situation do you need some information without any of the context(or without knowing any of the context)? i really believe that this is not an actual problem in need of solving, but instead creating a tool (personal ai assistant) and trying to find a usecase Edit0: note to self, rambling -
assuming there exist valuable information that one needa to access in their files, but one doesn't know where it is, when it was made, it's name or other information about it(as you could find said file right away with this information). Say you need an information for some documentation like the C standard - you need precise information on some process.
Is it not much simpler to just open the doc and use the index? Then again for you to be aeare of the C standard makes the query useless. If it's from something less well organised, say you want letters you wrote to your significant other, maybe the assistant could help. But then again, what are you asking? How hard is it to keep your letters in a folder? Or even simply know what you've done (I surely can't imagine forgetting things I've created but somehow finding use in a llm that finds it for me). Like asking it "what is my opinion on x" or "what's a good compliment I wrote" is nonsensical to me, but asking it about external ressources makes the idea of training it on your own data pointless. "How did I write X API" - just open your file, no? You know where it is, you made it. Like saying "get me that picture of unle tony in Florida" might save you 10 seconds instead of going into your files and thinking about when you got that picture, but it's not solving a real issue or making things more efficient.
(Edit1: if you don't know Tony, when you got the picture or of what it's a picture of, why are you querying? What's the usecase for this information, is it just to prove it can be done? It feels like the user needs to contorts themselves in a small niche for this product to be useful) Either it's used for non valuable work (menial search) or you already know how to get the answer you need. I cannot imagine a query that would be useful compared to simply being aware of what's in your computer. And if you're not aware of it, how do you search for it? |
> "get me that picture of unle tony in Florida" might save you 10 seconds instead of going into your files and thinking about when you got that picture
I don't have a memory for time, and I can't picture things in my mind. Thinking about when I took a picture does nothing for me, I could be out by years. Having some unified natural language search engine would be amazing for me. I might remember it was a sunny day and that we got ice cream, and that's what I want to search on.
The "small niche" use case for me is often my daughter wants to see a photo of a family member I'm talking about, or I want to remember some other aspect of the day and the photo triggers that for me.