Not really, but it's probably easier to make it on top of LLM than to make specially-purposed tool for it, if we talking in terms of time-to-market effort.
SQLite FTS could have done this a decade ago. We've had good local search capabilities for two decades and they either been underused or abandoned (e.g. Google Desktop, Yahoo! Search). This may be a reasonable projection of where AI is headed. You can do a lot locally but there is too much incentive to centralize around cloud infrastructure, then the privacy concerns make that prohibitive and we end up with what feels like a false choice of cloud or bust.
Maybe it's LLM hype that will bring more powerful capabilities to the desktop?
I think classification and clusterisation is more important than search per se. "Where did I see that article about that weird psychological effect where people remember things they haven't seen" is not resolved by direct search, but can be - with some work - helped by language models and NLP. One doesn't need full blown frontier LLM for that, but bare word indexing would probably not do either.
Not really, but it's probably easier to make it on top of LLM than to make specially-purposed tool for it, if we talking in terms of time-to-market effort.
SQLite FTS could have done this a decade ago. We've had good local search capabilities for two decades and they either been underused or abandoned (e.g. Google Desktop, Yahoo! Search). This may be a reasonable projection of where AI is headed. You can do a lot locally but there is too much incentive to centralize around cloud infrastructure, then the privacy concerns make that prohibitive and we end up with what feels like a false choice of cloud or bust.
Maybe it's LLM hype that will bring more powerful capabilities to the desktop?
I think classification and clusterisation is more important than search per se. "Where did I see that article about that weird psychological effect where people remember things they haven't seen" is not resolved by direct search, but can be - with some work - helped by language models and NLP. One doesn't need full blown frontier LLM for that, but bare word indexing would probably not do either.