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Thanks for the somewhat lengthy reply! Makes sense. On the topic of AI...
I'm not fond of LLM and diffusion* technology right now because of where training data came from. However, machine learning is cool. I'd like to be able to run AI compute loads for things like security camera image detection and the like. Do you know of (I know what I'm asking here lol...) any feasible way to buy capable hardware for a somewhat less inflated price? I'll buy things I must disassemble to save a buck. Local hardware for machine learning applications is something I've wanted for a while but keep waiting to pull the trigger on because of how fast progress is these days.
You want to look into frigate, and you don't need much of a graphics card. You could use a old gaming PC with a gtx 1060 from 10 years ago.
There's cameras with tensor cores in them too. I only played around with the pi ai camera but frigate uses the same yolo models. so you can have your camera process the image detection or the server's GPU.
It doesn't take as much as you think. Its when you want to generate content that its important you need lots of vram or cram the entire model into context.
I am the biggest ai hater I know but local models, and old school ai technologies before LLMs are pretty cool.