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An AI chatbot trained on massive amounts of knowledge about survival, farming, animal husbandry, small scale community management, home building, clothes making
by api 1y ago
An AI chatbot trained on massive amounts of knowledge about survival, farming, animal husbandry, small scale community management, home building, clothes making, etc would be immensely valuable.
“I have chickens and one has stopped laying eggs and become lethargic. What could be the cause?”
These things are great lookup tools, much better than web search, and being “jpegs for knowledge” you can pack a lot of knowledge into a small device. You have to check the results but having some old fashioned books on hand would help with that, as would some common sense.
I agree about a separate device. A durable laptop and a solar panel to charge it would be best.
A lot of special purpose devices are sold as a way to sell software since people won’t buy software. Sell a software and data bundle containing curated data and apps and such and nobody will buy it, but pair it with some e-waste and they will.
Same goes for a lot of digital assistants and other gadgets. They could just be apps but people don’t buy apps so they have to come bundled with e-waste.
- mwcampbell 1y ago> These things are great lookup tools, much better than web search Here's an article that argues otherwise, convincingly IMO: https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/information-literacy-and-chatbots-as-search/ https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/information-literacy-...