Do they use much electricity/processing power when they are idle, or only really when they’re being queried?
Only when they're being queried, when idle it consumes memory to keep them running to be ready to answer a query, but thats about it
Memory probably, but not processing power.
The electricity needed to store data in memory is relatively miniscule next to doing any sort of processing on it
you should just give it a thinking loop that runs 24/7 that just prompts it with "nothing is happening" over and over again. and give it memory of its responses along with a counter that counts how many times nothing has happened, so that it is fully aware that it is stuck in an endless loop of boredom.
Are we anywhere near being able to run this in a car? I want to hook it up to loads of stuff in my car and have a computer control it like Star Trek.
sure, you can run them on a phone, a laptop even a raspberry pi. depending on what size and speed you want of course
On a car without modification, likely not, at least not a decently good model. You could technically install a powerful enough computer in your car to run on it
So how do you go about training a local ai?
boomer: "You can turn it into an ai girlfriend just by getting it to nag you to do stuff"
