I asked AI today if it could teach me how to run a cad style program. It told me it had no experience but is very good at reading directions and can probably walk me through it. This for me would be a world changer if it actually works.
I’ve used it to deepen my basic knowledge of Logic (a music production software program for the Mac.) It has worked out very well for me, faster than going through a bunch of YouTube tutorials to try to figure out how to do something very specific. It wasn’t perfect, but I was able to work around its imperfections by telling it what wasn’t working and giving it screenshots of my problems. YouTube was still useful when I had more time and was looking for general knowledge or wanted to see how someone approached a certain concept.
Overall, I think it can be a good aid if you know how to use AI and understand its current limitations.
For something like this I consider AI to be a Google search on steroids. It can find the info you need pretty quickly and give a decent answer. But, you still need to read the directions.
I’ve found it a useful resource and sounding board for operating offline Stable Diffusion text-to-image UI’s, particularly InvokeAI. I understood almost nothing and it walked me through all the terminology and processes for doing different things. And it provides useful image feedback and prompt writing advice.
I could certainly just Google all this stuff, but ChatGPT conveniently gathers all the information on my behalf and presents it in an easy to digest conversational format.
This is exactly the premise of NotebookLM. You add source docs and the LLM summarizes and lets you ask questions about those docs.