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[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With it being local it’s probably a small and limited model. I took a couple courses on machine learning years ago (before it got rebranded as “AI”), and you’d be surprised at how well a basic image recognition model can run on the lowest-spec macbook from 2012.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tbh the inversion of typical intuition that is LLMs taking orders of magnitudes more memory than computer vision can mess people unfamiliar up on estimates of the hardware required

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah that’s very true.