If we are talking about a single neural network that can do everything in real-time, then the only viable path I am aware of is spiking neural networks. When y

If we are talking about a single neural network that can do everything in real-time, then the only viable path I am aware of is spiking neural networks. When you are working with I/O, you need to be very sensitive to time domain considerations. Training a periodic timer (i.e. polling for a response) into the current crop of transformer models does not seem feasible outside of clunky agentic approaches that invoke some external tool.