A wall that listens: the local-LLM pipeline behind an AI party in Vilnius
Use casesSource:vania-novikau.me
A creative experiment in Vilnius: a wall with microphones and speakers powered by a fully local LLM pipeline. Participants talk to the wall and get responses generated on site — no cloud, no external servers.
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