Comment on Descentralized AI book reading server
Vanth@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
If copyright were magically not an issue, why does this need to be local/self hosted?
Like sure, some people will still self host and we need some people to keep information independent of corporations. But for people who just want a summary of a car maintenance task, why would they go to a local repository instead of the largest one they can find?
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Because those who dedicate themselves to finding the best information would have the best AI specific to that information. I would want my question routed to Joe’s shop and not jiffy lubes shop.
Maybe your question is about photography or maybe specific to photography chemistry or maybe to the mechanisms of a shutter or maybe you want to known how to setup a second curtain flash or maybe you want to known what specific wavelengths your first doublet filters for or what wavefront shape the light beam reflecting off the camera’s sensor will have or what sort of material can absorb it best so it doesn’t reflect back as a haze. Who knows! Well the very best people who do that sort of thing know, and they got all the books about it! So why not share that information if the books are just sitting there every day just collecting dust.
Sure something like this hasn’t been done yet. But its not because it can’t be done. Its because it’s difficult to do. But all the pieces are already there. We just need a few good puzzle masters to put it all together.
Vanth@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Ah, you want specialized instead of general.
Well, then is a couple of books enough to train your LLM? How many books are there on wavelengths your first doublet filters for?
Seems like you might want a forum full of topic specific comments too to feed into the model. A photography textbook with a section on lenses is good, real questions and answers from actual photographers with real scenarios would be better for most people.
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Not just that but. My own notes from say Joplin. Can it consume those and expand my knowledge based on things I’ve already done and results I’ve already tried. And that’s still just an example. I could be a race car driver learning a particular race way or a set of other drivers etc.