lab_local_models/questions.md

Questions

Answer each of the following questions.

Memory and models

1. How much memory is available on your system?

2. List two models from Hugging Face or Ollama's model library that could run on your system. For each one, explain what it is good at.

3. Choose an interesting-looking model that cannot run on your system. What is this model good at doing? Imagine an AI-powered app you could create with this model and describe it.

Local vs. remote models

4. Ollama can easily be configured to use a remotely-hosted model; you just provide the URL where the model is hosted. List some of the advantages of locally-hosted models, and some of the advantages of remotely-hosted models. What kinds of apps would be most suitable for locally-hosted models? What kinds of apps would be most suitable for remotely-hosted models?