A colleague has started to use Google's NotebookLM to produce study guides, a podcast episode, etc. for his students to use. Admittedly, it's a neat little tool, but I do wonder if any FOSS and/or more privacy-related options exist.
For example, can I install and run a comparable, offline AI tool on my own desktop, something that will provide an AI-generated set of notes, a fictitious podcast episode, etc. for use in the classroom?
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Perplexica is the open source version of perplexity. The search engine aggregator is easy to self host, but ollama can be a bit slow when self hosted. You can use an API key if you want to outsource the language model, but you want to do the searching yourself.
https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica
You could consider creating a compute cluster with your devices using expo. Please let me know how it goes if you do that...
Thanks for the suggestions. From a quick skim, I'm not sure if these tools will be able to perform analyses on PDFs, generate audio recordings of mock podcasts, etc. like the Google tool, but they do nevertheless look quite useful. I'll definitely be bookmarking both for later experimentation.
Thank you!
ppq.ai has some of the features you listed..
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I expect these things to comoditize through open source. I hope nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h finds a way to contribute towards that while still being profitable...
You guys are talking about something I've been thinking heavily on for a bit now.
First, I'm a HUGE fan of notebookLM... and there IS an open source version of it! Podcastfy.ai!
I have actually thought deeply about how we could bring podcastfy to PPQ.AI but we haven't been able to get to it yet. I even went so far as to have a conversation with a friend about it and he gave me some thoughts on deploying it:
If either of you are interested, if I created a bounty for you to deploy this for me it would be amazing. If you are interested, let's set a call at some point because there is a lot more to explain.
Unfortunately, I've already got my hands full with nostr:npub1zzt0d0s2f4lsanpd7nkjep5r79p7ljq7aw37eek64hf0ef6v0mxqgwljrv, but nostr:npub1ygjd597hdwu8larprmhj893d5p832j5mhejpx40ukezgudvayg9qeklajc might be interested. He is my go to guy for AI self hosting.
nostr:npub1ygjd597hdwu8larprmhj893d5p832j5mhejpx40ukezgudvayg9qeklajc made [this](@npub1s38k956n6x6lqqca8y5h6jwdpk2n4m7ulta05f0cyc4gchtm44aqmt5wkd) ChatBot for me at the beginning of last year when I was looking for something like ppq.ai
i am just think to castfy and self host
