Tech On Loc

  This post also has a  YouTube version. Meet Katherine my personalized offline conversational companion chatbot, which can answer questions, give facts on anything, and can remember and comprehend.  I made this chatbot without any large language models. So no-GPT essentially. After years of working on my own conversational software as a hobby, I finally have a prototype I can use to demonstrate. This is Katherine my offline chatbot. I named it after Katherine Johnson - A human computer that worked for NASA. Katherine is powered by my own python code , some public libraries, and local files. I’ve spent a few years learning different strategies for closed looped conversational system. Thanks to Katherine here, I think I’m on the right track. Why did I make Katherine?  Well aside from having my own personalized chatbot, l wanted to be able to have a companion robot that I could talk to no matter the situation. Whether it be a Power outage, or a camping trip, my compani...