I recently set up a LLM to run locally on my desktop. Now that the novelty of setting it up and playing with different settings has worn off, I’m struggling to come up with actual uses for it. What do you use it for when not doing work stuff?
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You can use it for anything that requires a little logical multi step thought (anything single fact based is a straight web search with your search engine of choice)
For example,
- Rewrite your CV.
- reply to a letter
- write some code for a particular task.
- debug your computer problem.
- form a legal analysis to a situation ( https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/09/over-40-of-lawyers-now-use-ai-to-accelerate-their-work/ )
- have a conversation about a topic to help you understand yourself or a thing better. (“How do I build a ceph storage cluster in Kubernetes on Talos Linux with a raspberry pi, a mini pc …”). Then you can ask about alternatives solutions or whatever.
- come up with a business idea and talk it through with some’one’. Pricing etc.
- summaries of text.
At the moment they don’t always spit out correct answers to factual questions; they’d rather give crap than say they don’t know (without anthropomorphisising). When I asked Claude for equivalent sections in another jurisdictions legislation I got crap back on several occasions rather than the correct answer, but the false ‘facts’ were easy to check. However, the analysis was correct. ChatGPT gave the correct answer (to the original question). And I’ve had it the other way around too. So for the moment, pair them with Google or something similar for any fact output requested.
They’re excellent tools for analysing situations and providing feedback. The code it writes is pretty good.
Hopefully they never get trained on social media.
