Chat with RTX can search transcripts of YouTube videos and local documents, and it can pull out key information from PDFs. However, it has limitations, such as inaccurate source attribution and inability to remember context for follow-up questions. The app also creates JSON files inside the folders it indexes. Despite these issues, Nvidia's demo shows the potential of what an AI chatbot can do locally on a PC in the future.
Key takeaways:
- Nvidia is releasing an early version of Chat with RTX, a demo app that allows users to run a personal AI chatbot on their PC, which can create summaries and provide relevant answers based on YouTube videos and personal documents.
- The app requires an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU with at least 8GB of VRAM and runs locally on a PC. It can be used for data research, analyzing documents, and searching through video transcripts.
- Despite some bugs and limitations in this early version, the chatbot has been found useful in quickly searching through documents and videos, summarizing content, and fact-checking data.
- Chat with RTX installs a web server and Python instance on your PC, leveraging Nvidia’s Tensor cores on an RTX GPU to speed up queries. However, it is not yet a polished app and has known issues, including inaccurate source attribution and inability to remember context.