4/7/2026 at 1:19:10 PM
by kukanani
4/7/2026 at 5:03:53 PM
Had not even thought about having kids in the house with an AI robot. Obviously there are the more apparent issues (asking about things they don't need to know) but saw a recent article about how ChatGPT and some other models have an implicit confirmation bias when interacting with users. I don't need my kid to reinforce bad ideas from their cute, all knowing, robot friend.by BlueRock-Jake
4/7/2026 at 4:58:21 PM
This is the kind of project I really want to make, especially now that LLMs are very capable, even the small ones. Just need a good computer to run the model off of. I wonder what happened to Mycroft? I looked forward to seeing more of it.Mycroft was an open source alternative to Alexa.
by giancarlostoro
4/7/2026 at 8:32:01 PM
I cannot edit my original comment, I posted a thread on HN apparently Mycroft AI was killed by a patent troll that drained their funds with legal fees. Patent trolling should really have legal consequences for suing people while not actually providing value to society.by giancarlostoro
4/7/2026 at 5:14:40 PM
You don't need that much for simpler models. Some can even run on a PI.Qwen3 and Gemma models are fairly capable, they are slow-ish (a few tokens per second) but will run.
You can start building with cheap hardware and simple models, and use something more capable once you're more confident on the use case.
by juancn
4/7/2026 at 5:56:47 PM
Local inference is definitely a good way to go here. Latency when talking to an embodied robot is extremely noticeable though, and pauses during voice chats are way worse than during text chats.It’s something I’m exploring - stay tuned :)
by kukanani
4/8/2026 at 11:41:28 AM
Oh hey, I've had one of those sitting on a shelf! Someone on eBay seems to have a metric fuckton of these things for $50 a whack. 17 left as of my comment.Unfortunately... yeah, they're all stuck in the useless Esper management still if you factory default them away from whatever weird factory test app they're in. Care to throw us a little bone? ;)
by kotaKat
4/7/2026 at 11:39:40 PM
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