Technology

People often tend to underestimate the potential for new technology, but there are plenty of legitimate use cases already. For example, I practice speaking Mandarin using a LLM, it's great at doing conversation and correcting me when I say something grammatically wrong. They're also good for narrating audio books, generating subtitles, adding voice to games, etc. I also find they can be helpful when coding, it's often faster to get a model to point you in the right direction than searching for something on the internet. For example, I find they're great at crafting SQL queries. I often know what I want in a query, but might not know the specific syntax. I'm sure we'll be finding plenty of other use cases going forward especially as stuff like reasoning models starts to mature where they can actually explain the steps they use to arrive at a solution and can be corrected.

The power usage was basically the main legitimate argument against this tech, but now we're seeing that problem is already being addressed. I'm sure we'll continue to see even more improvements down the road.