Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often presented like a complex field, the state of the art being impossible to understand, models too large to train, incredible work in progress moving forward that could change anything, yet a black box inscrutable for anyone except the selected few.
This is truly damaging to the field as it is a fascinating topic and even though indeed nobody can understand it all, we can all benefit from tinkering with it, learning from it and possibly even using it.
Regardless of all those limitation the goal here is to showcase that even though not everything can be done on your desktop, a lot can. Composing from that and learning how it works can help to reconsider a potential feeling of helplessness. Not only can you self-host AI models, use them, adapt them, but there is a whole community and set of tools to help you do so. This movement itself is very encouraging. AI does not have to be a block box. Your digital life does not have to be owned by someone else, even for the state of the art.