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Re:Local AI needs to be the norm by kibwen on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:20PM (#48087516)
This seems overly pessimistic.

I may personally be of modest intelligence, but to acquire the intelligence that I do have, I did not need to train on every book ever written, every Wikipedia article ever written, every blog post ever written, every reference manual ever written, every line of code ever written, and so on. In fact, I didn't train on even 1% of those materials, or even 0.00000000001% of those. The texts themselves were demonstrably not a prerequisite for intelligence.

At minimum, given that it only took me about 20 years of casual observation of my surroundings to approximate intelligence, this is proof positive that the only "dataset" you need is a bunch of sensors and the world around you.

And yes, of course, the human brain does not start from zero; it had a few million years of evolution to produce a fertile plot for intelligence to take root. But that fundamental architecture is fairly generic, and does not at all seem predicated on any sort of specific training set. You could feasibly evolve it artificially.

Re:Local AI needs to be the norm by krupan on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:27PM (#48088255)
What does this even have to do with the parent? Your capabilities have nothing to do with LLM capabilities. The two work in completely different ways. The reason LLMs work is because they are huge and have been trained on vast amounts of data, full stop. Sure, there's potential someday to get something useful using less data, but we aren't there.
Re:Local AI needs to be the norm by avadodin on Sunday May 10, 2026 @06:23PM (#48088759)
You are right on the limitations of the architecture but I wouldn't call LLMs huge. Flagship models maybe but that's just because they don't scale very well.

A universal translator with image and voice recognition and a decent breadth of encyclopedic knowledge in only a small fraction of an English Wikipedia dump(6GB/20+GB) is not "huge".

It is probably closer to the theoretical limit than anyone could have expected.

Re:Local AI needs to be the norm by _heimdall on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:29PM (#48087634)
You're also embodied and experiencing the world around you with more senses than only the ability to read text.
Re:Local AI needs to be the norm by rogerrogerr on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:59PM (#48087946)
> the only "dataset" you need is a bunch of sensors and the world around you.