[esskay]

This is really cool, I've wanted to build a sort of AI home assistant that can do this kind of thing as well as look things up. Having homepods and trying to get anything out of it after using ChatGPT you realise just how utterly awful Siri is.

The biggest issue for me is the costs involved. Getting a local LLM working reliably seems to require some pretty expensive (both in terms of initial outlay and power consumption - it aint cheap in the UK!) and has made it a non starter.

It does make me wonder why we're not seeing the likes of Raspberry Pi work on an AI specific HAT for their boards, especially as they've started to somewhat slow down and move out of the focus of many makers.