[squarefoot]

Thanks for all replies. It would probably be worth creating a HOWTO or something like that aimed at non ML experts or complete AI illiterates like myself to help putting together something that works in simple steps (assuming this is possible), from procuring the hardware offering the minimal requirements to organizing data in a way that can be used for training, and finally using the right tools for the job.

[infecto]

There is zero training evolved. The workflow is no different really compared to normal search. Compare to the high level flow of implementing elastic search. The only difference is you are encoding the data using vectors based on a model that best meets your criteria. Tons of howtos out there already on generating embedding a search for LLMs. I think even openai has some cookbooks for this in their docs.