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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoCurious, are you having it do anything useful? If it could be trusted, a local Ai assistant would benefit from access to many facets of personal data. Once upon a time I had a trusted admin - I gave her my cc info, key fob, calendar and email access and it was amazing. She could schedule things for me, have my car taken to the shop, maintain my calendar etc. Trust of course is the key here, but it would be great to have even a small taste of that kind of help again.
Nope, nothing useful. Right now I am playing with making some skills to do some rudimentary network testing. I figure it’s always nice to have a remote system to ping or nslookup or check a website from a remote location. I have it hooked to a telegram bot (burner account and restricted to just me) and I can ask it to ping or get me a screenshot or speedtest, etc. from anything it can reach on the internet.
Only purpose right now is to have something to show off :).
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
There’s a story about a guy who asked his LLM to remind him to do something in the morning, and it ended up burning quite a lot of money checking to see if daylight had broken once every 30 minutes with an unnecessary API call. Such is the supposed helpful assistant.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
That story was about a guy paying to use an API for a flagship model (like 200 billion parameters).
I think these people are talking about self-hosting a local model (probably like 12-32 billion parameters depending on your hardware), which means no API, no payments, and more personal control over settings and configuration.
Thousands of open-source models are freely available on huggingface, and you can even make your own fine-tuned version based on an existing one using any datasets you choose.
Still no point in using an AI agent to do what a basic alarm/reminder could do, but it allows people to innovate their own ways to integrate them into specific workflows. You can even configure them to play minecraft, just as an example