• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I haven’t looked into it but couldn’t someone just use an LLM for natural language processing and feed that to a home assistant? Like prompt it with “break up individual commands and pass to the assistant” so when I say “living room lights on and bedroom lights off” the fucking thing does it instead of “huh? I’m a moron.”

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      They could, but they wouldn’t be able to trap that functionality behind a paywall, so they’re not interested.

      It can get done by anyone with an open model in way less than a year, using the approach you’ve described.

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        People run whisper on HA, and there already exist intention mapping packages. They’ve been around for probably a decade already. Pretty hit or miss… mostly because there isn’t a ton of flexibility in the structure of the commands you issue it.

        If someone wanted to use an online LLM to attempt to translate a complex whisper transcription into something an existing intention mapped would handle well, that’s closer to a day’s worth of goofing around rather than a year. I actually refuse to believe it hasn’t already been done.

        And if you’re using an online llm to do that translation, I don’t see why that can’t be behind a paywall either.

        Honestly for this task, I imagine offline models would be sufficient.