Comment on Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife
pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks agoSpecialized models can be made incredibly efficient. The big tech guys are trying to replace humans which is why their crap takes such huge servers to run. Building local-first/only just means you need to specialize the model and the pipeline to match what you’re doing
Thanks.
I understand now that this software does not use one of the big general AI providers but a specialised model (for birds esp.?) that runs locally; that I can get behind.
Are there other keywords in software descriptions I can look for that help me make such distinctions?
pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
LLM and VLM are generally the type of model that needs a ton of resources to run. Birdnet uses an audio classification model, but there are dozens of types of models.
I’m building specialized task-focused pipelines which keep the memory footprint small for self-hosted users, and I’m working on a unified framework too make building other pipelines and applications much easier: docs.circuitforge.tech