I use it like that all the time. There's so much information in the world which assumes you have a certain level of understanding already - you can decipher the jargon terms it uses, you can fill in the blanks when it doesn't provide enough detail.
I don't have 100% of the "common sense" knowledge about every field, but good LLMs probably have ~80% of that "common sense" baked in. Which makes them better at interpreting incomplete information than I am.
A couple of examples: a post on some investment forum mentions DCA. A cooking recipe tells me "boil the pasta until done".
I absolutely buy that feeding in a few photos of dusty half-complete manual pages found near my water heater would provide enough context for it to answer questions usefully.
I don't have 100% of the "common sense" knowledge about every field, but good LLMs probably have ~80% of that "common sense" baked in. Which makes them better at interpreting incomplete information than I am.
A couple of examples: a post on some investment forum mentions DCA. A cooking recipe tells me "boil the pasta until done".
I absolutely buy that feeding in a few photos of dusty half-complete manual pages found near my water heater would provide enough context for it to answer questions usefully.