If you’ve ever found yourself knee-deep in a sea of documents, desperately searching for that one piece of information you know is there but can’t quite locate, Nvidia’s new tool might just be your saving grace. Or, it might be a glorified paperweight. Let’s dive in.
Dubbed ‘Chat with RTX’, this tool allows owners of GeForce RTX 30 Series and 40 Series cards to run an AI-powered chatbot offline on a Windows PC. The idea is simple: connect the GenAI model to your documents, files, and notes, and it will query them for you. No more sifting through files or trying to remember where you saved that one important note. Just type in your query and let the AI do the rest.
Sounds great, right? Well, hold your horses. While the tool does offer some impressive features, it’s not without its limitations. For starters, Chat with RTX can’t remember context. So, if you’re asking follow-up questions, you’ll need to be explicit about what you’re referring to. Additionally, the relevance of the app’s responses can be affected by a range of factors, including the question phrasing, the performance of the selected model, and the size of the fine-tuning dataset.
And then there’s the storage issue. Downloading all the necessary files will eat up a fair amount of storage — 50GB to 100GB, depending on the model(s) selected. That’s a hefty price to pay, especially for small businesses operating with limited resources.
So, is Chat with RTX worth it? Well, that depends. If you’re a small business with a ton of documents to sift through and the resources to spare, it might be worth a shot. But if you’re looking for a tool that’s going to revolutionize your workflow, you might want to keep looking. As it stands, Chat with RTX is more a toy than a tool to be used in production.
But hey, who knows? Maybe one day we’ll all be chatting with our RTX cards, asking them to find that one restaurant recommendation from that one trip to Las Vegas. Until then, we’ll just have to make do with good old-fashioned manual searching. Or, you know, use the search function.
