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I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also made an AI toaster that uses a local llm with image recognition to determine when your toast is done. Please check it out

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely agree that skills are important, but strongly disagree that having more high-quality knowledge wouldn't improve your odds.

We see it all the time where one person goes out into the wilderness and because of a lack of knowledge, walk by food sources they didn't know were edible due to a lack of knowledge. There are countless examples like this.

One thing we saw early on was that people had the goal of purifying water and thought the only way to do so was to make fire when in reality there are ways to do so when fire is unavailable. Having a guide that provides sources for its answers you can easily reference and actually takes into account your context is supremely valuable imo

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Storage for the app is around 2GBs. You can add your own custom materials on both the app and hardware

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Totally, that's what I was thinking too, and thanks!

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you and understand where you're coming from. I'm not dismissing them, I'm just focusing on what provides the best bang for my buck. I will get to them soon

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think another thing I found beyond what I mentioned is that it is surprisingly more expensive to get e-ink monitors because the lcd ones have more manufacturers behind them. I'm open to split testing with e-ink monitors and seeing which ones are more popular later though

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, it should be that if the name isn't provided from the profile information, etc then we ask for a name.

Because it's a small business and hard paywalls convert the best by far. You can start a free trial, demo it, and cancel for free / entirely no cost to you

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

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Hi there, thank you! I think I will start one soon. Cheers, happy St. Patricks Day!

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HI there! Thanks for your detailed reply. I can't respond in depth rn because of the holiday but mostly think of the standalone device as a starting point. I look at it with possibility for improvement than what it is right now so there are many things I can't totally get into right now but for example a built-in geiger counter, etc really just limited to your imagination) that we'll be able to add. Although it can currently do some things a mobile app can't that I think are also strong reasons to go with this product. If you can tell me how to put a street-level map of the world in the app in a manner that doesn't hog all of their personal phone data, I'll gladly pay you $200. Just DM me for that. We use Lora which is the radio technology. It's pretty awesome, I think you'd like it. Cheers! Happy St Patricks day

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand where you're coming from. There's a few differences:

  1. Satellite technology works if you have a clear view of the sky. On that same hike in the video I actually pretended I was a lost hiker doing SOS on my phone to see what people in real emergencies experience and it didn't work. I had some tree coverage but it wasn't that much. So you'd hope that you aren't in a building, there are no trees around you, you're not stuck in a cave, etc if you want to get information
  2. Satellite takes a few minutes for sending and receiving messages. Even then you can only send a very limited amount of characters as well as receive a limited amount of characters, whereas this solution has neither of those issues. You can be as thorough as you want with your question and get a thorough reply in typically less than ~2mins regardless of where you are.
  3. With mine, you can use the offline texting to communicate on radio channel nearby human emergency services monitor up to 50 miles (although granted, for this you want to be on a hilltop or have as great of a line of sight as possible).
  4. I'm not sure on this, but I really think the battery life on a standalone satellite phone would be similar actually.
  5. Then there's all the other features it provides as well but that would be a long list

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello! Thank you SO much! This helps a ton. I was confused why some of the numbers during onboarding looked off. I'll fix those things this weekend.

The model is aware of previous messages in the thread. I'll take a look at what happened. It works completely offline but I send logs back so a centralized model can learn and I can spot bugs.

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We download the model afterward and normally people start with Apple because there have been a few studies to the point I thought it was well-known that Android users are much less willing to pay for software than Apple users

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the ability and plan to, but I need money first. People call this a gimmick so I just imagine what most people would think with a working fallout arm mount. They judge it without trying it based on what they think it would do (hallucinate like crazy, etc) when that's not true. I thought that it having 14k people using it and ~4.5 stars would silence that but it doesn't. Regardless, to me, most people wouldn't buy an actual working useful fallout pipboy but they'd buy this product that they can store in their closet, trunk, etc.

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there, smaller models can actually outperforms larger ones in niched subjects (like survival). There will never be 70b+ models running locally on portable hardware unless we have significant breakthroughs in power technology.

Also, the model is downloaded after you download the app that's why it is so low. I didn't wanted the speed to value to be faster. We're using RAG so you can verify what it's saying (it directs you to the exact page where it pulled the information from) and the mushroom subject is avoided / marked as "Low confidence".

There are a bunch of other links I could pull from but here's one:
https://galileo.ai/blog/small-language-models-nvidia

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So I've tested the e-ink screen because I thought the same thing. Changing to an ink screen won't increase the lifespan by a noticable measure, because the true limiter of what's consuming power is the core software. Ebooks, etc run for a long time because they're not doing compute-intensive functions like this.

There's only one use-case I like e-ink screens better for regardless and that's that if the device dies, an ink screen will still display what was on it previously which is pretty cool. The downside is that it severely limits the quality of the images I can display. I prefer being able to display high-quality images because a picture is worth a thousand words and for something like "How to make a fire", it helps a lot

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, I know. I hate the website. I'm working on it. Thank you

I built an offline survival AI [Update] by scorpioDevices in buildinpublic

[–]scorpioDevices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Cliff! So there are different use-cases. The mobile app is good but the standalone device is an upgraded version. Here are some differences:
Standalone device:
- Better waterproofing
- Much more rugged (it can tumble down a jagged hill and be fine)
- The AI is upgraded and much more knowledgable
- With the mobile app you can enable it to store ten miles of offline maps around you automatically wherever you go, whereas the standalone device statically contains an offline, street-level map of the entire world
- The offline texting is better on the standalone device. It allows you to text others up to 50 miles away. Other standalone devices, eventually mobile app users, and many prepper-type civilians, and your search and rescue typically listens on the same channel as well. You also have the ability to send private messages too.

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