An Arduino® UNO™ Q lets this vintage terminal answer questions without internet access

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An Arduino® UNO™ Q lets this vintage terminal answer questions without internet access, Arduino Blog announced. But most people assume that requires an internet connection, because those LLMs live in massive data centers (a building full of computers that runs online services). The truth is that LLMs can run on local hardware, answering questions without any internet at […] The post An Arduino® UNO™ Q lets this vintage terminal answer questions without internet access appeared first on Arduino Blog .

The truth is that LLMs can run on local hardware, answering questions without any internet at all. Cameron Coward, of the Serial Hobbyism YouTube channel, took advantage of that fact, connecting an Arduino UNO Q to a vintage terminal .

That terminal is a Texas Instruments Silent 700 (Model 745), which is a paper terminal that was made in the 1970s. Back then, it would have been used as an input/output device for something like a minicomputer, connected through either an acoustic coupler (remote) or RS232 (local).