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...

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

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!

I expect these things to comoditize through open source. I hope nostr:nprofile1qqsdy27dk8f9qk7qvrm94pkdtus9xtk970jpcp4w48k6cw0khfm06mspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3e82cfwvdhk6qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09x35fm 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.

nostr:nprofile1qqszyfx6zltkhwrl73s3amerjck6qnc4f2dmueqn2h7tv3ywxkwjyzsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0jrp9c6 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