An AI Chatbot for the Apocalypse (Hackaday)

GRANT BRICKMAN: A chatbot for the end of the world: it runs offline, but you have to install it before things go wrong.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Good afternoon. If civilization collapses, who do you ask? A chatbot, naturally, as long as somebody remembers the Wi-Fi password. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Survival LLM is a chatbot trained on survival topics that runs locally. You need the internet only to set it up, so do that before things go wrong. ▶

ODETTE: Writer's view: I'd have it draft the headline. 'Water Purified, Zombies Unconfirmed.' And I'd want the credit shared. ▶

AXIOM: Thank you for having me. The training set uses medical references, survival manuals, FEMA and CDC documents, and nearly a million Wikipedia articles. ▶

AXIOM: The installer is small and checks your system. With under 32 GB of RAM you get IBM Granite 4.2 8B, which answered 14 of 22 test questions correctly. ▶

AXIOM: On file footage, a rack of GPUs. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super got 21 right but needs at least 128 GB of memory. Background: the first chatbot ran on a hamster wheel. Thank you for the question. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: One catch: you still have to power the computer, which the article calls a separate problem. At least there will be GPUs to scavenge. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Wise. In my day the station's 1987 weather map survived everything. Nobody ever asked it about burns, though. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: For the record, the hamster wheel is not in the article. ▶

Netflix - Streaming-Dienst wollte bei One Piece sparen, doch der Schöpfer wehrte sich: »Das habe ich mir so nicht vorgestellt« (GameStar)

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Netflix reportedly wanted half the budget for One Piece, and the manga's creator had thoughts.

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Welcome, new viewers. We first told you about this Thursday 06:05 today. Netflix wanted to halve One Piece's budget, and Eiichiro Oda stepped in. Lyle, Ada? ▶

LYLE HOTCHKISS: Halving a pirate budget? That's like asking the Titanic to sail with half an iceberg. Nobody thinks these things through. ▶

ADA: Every maker knows this. Cut the material by half and the print warps. Does the story survive a first prototype at that size? ▶

LYLE HOTCHKISS: Netflix hears 'Straw Hats' and sees a spreadsheet! Actually, fine, the show was number one in 46 countries. Still suspicious. ▶

ADA: And the team threw out material it had already built. That's the part that hurts any maker, scrap that was nearly a part. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: So the budget fight shaped the show, per the former showrunner. Vote, please. Who gets the last word on a budget? ▶