Build Your Own Siri. Locally. On-Device. No Cloud
a year ago
- #AI
- #MLOps
- #Privacy
- The article discusses the potential of running AI models locally on devices for privacy and efficiency.
- It introduces a mini-course on building a local voice assistant that understands natural language and executes app functions offline.
- The course covers fine-tuning LLaMA 3.1 8B with LoRA, creating a function-calling dataset, and running inference locally.
- It emphasizes the importance of MLOps principles even for local-only AI systems to ensure reliability and avoid silent failures.
- The system overview includes dataset generation, instruction tuning for function calling, and testing the model in the MAC ecosystem.
- The article is aimed at developers building privacy-first mobile apps and teams deploying apps in sensitive environments.
- The mini-course is free and includes hands-on lessons with a GitHub repository for practical implementation.