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Consider your wish for an AI digital assistant that runs locally and offline officially granted. Not by a major industry player, naturally – your personal data is too enticing – but by a guy on GitHub who built one to run on a Raspberry Pi.  Data scientist and machine learning engineer Noah Kasmanoff developed the Raspberry Pi …

  1. cyberdemon Silver badge
    Pint

    Pi-CARD?

    Surely it should be called COM-Puter?

    COMpletely Pointless User Titilation Erratic Response

    Nevertheless, I congratulate them on making an AI assistant that doesn't spy on people, even if it is even dafter than an Alexa on Ketamine. They deserve a pint of synthahol.

  2. ColonelDare
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    Excellent idea!

    How about a wearable v2 that will remember where I left my car keys?

    1. werdsmith Silver badge

      Re: Excellent idea!

      Air tag

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  4. Bebu Silver badge
    Windows

    If RPi5 why not...

    Strikes me that a good many phones out there are likely to have even more grunt (CPU/GPU/Ram) than an 8Gb RPi5 and a bit more integrated out of the box (camera, screen, microphone, speaker included.)

    Which is a portent of the horror phones the near future holds.

    I can imagine these malignant little Alexas and Siris phoning each other on the qt to exchange malicious gossip on their peers and their phone's "owner."

    1. Boy Quiet

      Re: If RPi5 why not...

      YES a phone has all of those things.

      BUT as far as I know I cannot directly load my code onto my phone, without going through something that has proprietary terms and conditions.

      Yes my c or c++ compiler has them but given I use it a lot it’s worth going through the licence terms and conditions.

      But the T&C of phone OS have to be accepted with every update. And last time I looked there were 70+ pages. And I believe we saw a recent case where someone signed up for a free trial of a web service only to find they were debarred from legal action when injured in that company’s physical space.

      Rant over

  5. Andy Non
    Happy

    Whatever you think of AI

    I raise my hat and a pint to the ingenuity of hobbyists. Cheers.

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