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A Maker Turned a $4 Toy Robot Into an AI Companion for a Kid, and a Tiny 0.8B Model Makes It Stop in 200 ms Talking robots usually have a lag problem: by the time a large language model has decided what "stop" means, the robot has already hit the wall. Maker Asten (beasaltfish) ran into exactly this while turning a $4 toy robot into a voice-controlled AI companion for their kid, and fixed it with a second, much smaller model. A fine-tuned 0.8-billion-parameter "reflex" model hears every command… |
