This Local AI Assistant Lives in a Suitcase
People usually choose a specific AI assistant because it helps them with the things that are important to them. When it’s not helping, it should disappear into the background until it is called upon again. But that isn’t everyone’s ideal assistant. Jim Kunz, for instance, is a maker who wants an AI assistant that is always present and always ready to interject its own opinions, whether they are helpful or not.
Kunz’s requirements were specific enough that nothing on the market could possibly make him happy. For this reason, he spent several weekends hacking together his ideal AI assistant that he named Sparky. It was built into a suitcase to make it portable — in the same way that an Osborne 1 is "portable." But while it may be bulky, that space is needed to run the AI algorithm offline and include all of the hardware that gives Sparky...
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