Consider that a lot of useful work involves summarization (search++).
“What work has gone on for supply chain improvement in our European operations this year?” - this is the kind of question that is easy to ask in natural language but might take someone a week of searching, messaging, etc to assemble. An LLM with access to all of the code, documents, chats, etc could just give an answer with citations. We are not betting $1B on the answer that it gives, but it has saved us 1 week of work and allows us to move on to the next step in the project.
There are plenty of tasks like this which are highly valuable yet don’t require high trust. The one-shot “what is the airspeed of a coconut-laden swallow” type questions are actually fairly rare.
“What work has gone on for supply chain improvement in our European operations this year?” - this is the kind of question that is easy to ask in natural language but might take someone a week of searching, messaging, etc to assemble. An LLM with access to all of the code, documents, chats, etc could just give an answer with citations. We are not betting $1B on the answer that it gives, but it has saved us 1 week of work and allows us to move on to the next step in the project.
There are plenty of tasks like this which are highly valuable yet don’t require high trust. The one-shot “what is the airspeed of a coconut-laden swallow” type questions are actually fairly rare.