[HN Gopher] Show HN: Gdansk AI - full stack AI voice chatbot
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       Show HN: Gdansk AI - full stack AI voice chatbot
        
       Hi!  It's a complete product with integrations to Auth0, OpenAI,
       Google Cloud and Stripe, which consists of Next.js Web App, Node.js
       + Express Web API and Python + FastAPI AI API  I've built this
       software, because I wanted to make money by selling tokens to
       enable users talking with the chatbot. But I think Google / Apple
       will include such AI-powered assistant in their products soon, so
       nobody will pay me for using it  So I open source the product today
       and share it as a GNU GPL-2 licensed software  I'm happy to assist
       in case if something is unclear or requires additional docs and
       answer any questions about Gdansk AI :)  Thanks
        
       Author : yu3zhou4
       Score  : 77 points
       Date   : 2023-08-04 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | hidelooktropic wrote:
       | Nice work. I noticed the bing app does this too and I'm curious
       | how this would compare
        
       | a2128 wrote:
       | I've always wondered if there's a better way of making voice
       | assistants. With this stack, the AI will not be able to answer
       | "what is this sound?", or give you UK-based information because
       | it picked up on your British accent. It's bottlenecked by text. A
       | model that can understand audio as input, and output audio
       | directly, could be so much more powerful
        
         | og_kalu wrote:
         | Sure there's a better way. https://google-
         | research.github.io/seanet/audiopalm/examples/
         | 
         | There's no reason autoregressive LMs can't be used to model
         | audio data.
        
       | ramesh31 wrote:
       | I've honestly lost all interest in anything integrating with
       | OpenAI at this point. Llama 2 is giving completions at ChatGPT
       | levels with a single GPU. I've replaced all of my LLM usage with
       | it.
       | 
       | Open local models are the future.
        
         | Jeff_Brown wrote:
         | Open local models are literally the past, but the very recent
         | past. I therefore agree -- as long as they remain only on the
         | order of a year older than the cutting edge, their future looks
         | extremely bright.
         | 
         | I just hope for-profit enterprises continue wanting to push
         | that frontier as hard as they have been. (Wait, actually also
         | if they stop doing that it might be for the best ...)
        
           | ramesh31 wrote:
           | >Open local models are literally the past, but the very
           | recent past. I therefore agree -- as long as they remain only
           | on the order of a year older than the cutting edge, their
           | future looks extremely bright.
           | 
           | I think the qualitative difference between Llama 2 and _any_
           | previous open LLM is sufficient to the point that we can call
           | this a new epoch. It took OpenAI spending millions on free
           | compute to show the world what these things are capable of.
           | And because it 's something you can really only believe when
           | you see it, that's what set things off.
           | 
           | But the cat's out of the bag now, and it's never going back.
           | I think OpenAI would do well to return to their roots of pure
           | research rather than bothering with the product side of
           | things. Come up with the latest and greatest new models, then
           | chuck 'em over the fence for Microsoft to monetize.
           | 
           | >I just hope for-profit enterprises continue wanting to push
           | that frontier as hard as they have been. (Wait, actually also
           | if they stop doing that it might be for the best ...)
           | 
           | My bet is that Meta is pivoting hard right now. Llama is
           | probably their most successful project/product/whatever since
           | Instagram. They have the talent, the money, and (crucially
           | right now) the hardware to do it. And this plays directly
           | into Zuck's desire for a platform. It seems pretty obvious
           | their play is to build an ecosystem around these things and
           | start gradually introducing licensing fees (and/or hosted
           | models) for big commercial users.
        
         | starik36 wrote:
         | Which GPU is capable of all that? And which do you have a write
         | up for this?
        
       | aka878 wrote:
       | Swietne imie
        
         | renegat0x0 wrote:
         | Polacy nie gesi
        
         | scyzoryk_xyz wrote:
         | Tylko takie troche malo ,,miedzynarodowe"
        
           | tomwojcik wrote:
           | There's a few. Off the top of my head
           | 
           | https://github.com/kopia/kopia
        
             | yu3zhou4 wrote:
             | Sa tez nazwy nieintencjonalnie polskie. Gdy pierwszy raz
             | uslyszalem nazwe Zapier, pomyslalem, ze zalozycielem jest
             | Polak :p
        
           | yu3zhou4 wrote:
           | To prawda. Sprobujmy umiedzynarodowic polskie nazwy :)
        
       | kjok wrote:
       | Great job on Gdansk AI! How do you handle the speech-text/API
       | latency?
       | 
       | Coincidentally, I'm working on an idea that is similar to your
       | other project https://poss.market/market/ How's it going? Would
       | love to learn more.
        
         | yu3zhou4 wrote:
         | Hi, thanks! STT/TTS latencies are a bit bottleneck here
         | unfortunately, so it's not as fast as I'd want to
         | 
         | I'm about to launch poss market on production! Feel free to
         | drop a mail at jed@maczan.pl
        
       | selestify wrote:
       | Out of curiosity, why GPL2 instead of 3?
        
         | yu3zhou4 wrote:
         | No good reason behind it, I'm just not very familiar with GPL3
         | so I often default to 2. What could be reasons to pick 3 over
         | 2? I can consider it
        
       | benreesman wrote:
       | Related, what's the current SOTA on STT models freely available?
       | T5 is pretty good but the closed Google and Meta stuff seems
       | better.
        
         | nielsinho wrote:
         | TorToiSe (https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts) produces the
         | best quality speech of any freely available model. However, its
         | long inference times makes it impractical for voice chatbots
         | like Gdansk.
        
           | kjok wrote:
           | What's the reason for the high inference latency? Any ideas
           | on how this could be improved?
        
       | julianeon wrote:
       | I've thought that AI voice (anything) is probably the most useful
       | area of AI that's not been built yet in a form that's generally
       | known and available.
       | 
       | So kudos to you for building something useful and, as YC says,
       | for 'building something people want.'
        
       | quantum-crt wrote:
       | Looks cool! Do you have a hosted version anywhere we could play
       | around with?
        
         | yu3zhou4 wrote:
         | Demo is live! https://bibop.app/
         | 
         | Let me know if there are any troubles running it. It works
         | under Google Chrome
        
         | yu3zhou4 wrote:
         | I'm setting up the project on DigitalOcean right now!
        
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