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Ask HN: Do you think there's a market for a survival LLM?

1 points·by kyleyeats·3 anni fa·8 comments
Do you think there's a market for a survival LLM? Think shipwrecked on an island, but you have a solar panel, this product and maybe an e-ink screen/keyboard where you can talk to a chatbot about how to survive.

9 comments

theGeatZhopa·3 anni fa
How to run it by just a solar cell? You're talking about LLM that needs token processing power. .. but you can do a survivalgotchi that teaches you how to survive.. add gamyfication and achievements in case of production .. something preselected doing ELIZA will work though
kyleyeats·3 anni fa
Yeah it's insanely impractical, but the question is whether or not it's worth it. As a thought experiment, I think it leads towards using LLMs as an interface/OS for fallout shelters. Survivalgotchi sounds cool too though.
houseatrielah·3 anni fa
If civilization doesn't collapse it won't be very useful since most everything is in cell-range . Nevertheless, you could market it to the prepper community.
Engineering-MD·3 anni fa
You would be better off making a real hitch hikers guide to the galaxy manual with an LLM which has survival knowledge. Don’t panic.
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version_five·3 anni fa
What's the market size for shipwrecked people in 2023?
kyleyeats·3 anni fa
Preppers spent about 11 billion dollars last year.
smoldesu·3 anni fa
How much of that went towards paying for software?
kyleyeats·3 anni fa
I was thinking hardware for this idea. Actually I was thinking a Lord of the Flies situation where they all had an LLM to talk to and it became an oracle of sorts. It's just an idea, I'm not throwing any capital towards it.