Or an Encyclopedia Britannica on the shelf/in pdf. People don't know that they need it, but it indeed feels amazing when you need an information, and it is there.

Wikipedia is static, a local AI can be customized and adapted to your needs.

For example I would love an AI that could filter, summarize and prioritize news that I'm interested in.

AI doesn't know anything past September 2021. Now who is static?

ChatGPT doesn't know anything past September 2021.

Local LLMs can be as recent as yesterday.

Plus they can access a daily updated offline version of Wikipedia as well as news RSS feeds via LLamaIndex and/or Langchain.

Yeah it's a pretty fun dataset that you can do a lot of stuff with. Very slept on.