Running LLMs on a Microwave

In the future every fridge and hairdryer will boast its own version of “ChatGPT”. Faster then you might think.

Photo by Stefan C. Asafti on Unsplash

When I was 6 or 7 yo. I’ve seen for the first time how my mom was struggling with cooking and keeping family diet so diverse as possible.

When I was 11, I was hoping that everyone in the future would be able to chat with the “kitchen” so that there’ll be no more kitchen- & cooking-related struggles.

I wanted to be able to ask my kitchen something like:

• Hey, what’s in the fridge? What can I cook with it?
• Yo, I am going grocery shopping. What’s missing?

When I got older, some of the gadgets received (partially) that functionality. If I’m not mistaken one of those was Siemens Intelligent Refrigerator.

Source: Screenshot by author

However, the point of this article is not about the refrigerators.

It’s about the scale at which science, researchers, open source community, big tech & other smart individuals move the world of Large Language Models & Generative AI systems.

Every fridge, cooker, microwave, oven and dishwasher will be AI-enhanced/-powered.