Is there any computer program with AI capabilities (the generative ones seen in ChatGPT; onlineText-to-Picture generators, etc.) that is actually standalone? i.e. able to run in a fully offline environment.
As far as I understand, the most popular AI technology rn consists of a bunch of matrix algebra, convolutions and parallel processing of many low-precision floating-point numbers, which works because statistics and absurdly huge datasets. So if any such program existed, how would it even have a reasonable storage size if it needs the dataset?
You can get decent results with much less these days, actually. I don’t have personal experience (I do have a 24GB GPU) but the open source community has put a lot of work into getting models to run on lower-spec machines. Aim for smaller models (8B parameters is common) and low quantization (the values of the parameters get squished into smaller numbers of bits). It’s slower and the results can be of noticeably lower quality but I’ve seen people talk about usable LLMs running CPU-only.