Comment by DesiLurker
3 years ago
something like this could be interesting for deep-space applications where you only have a bare metal environment with hardened processor and limited memory & of course ping time of days (to earth).
or alternatively for embedding a C compiler inside a LLM to use the LLM as a form of virtual machine.
You mean like for retrofitting an existing satellite? It seems like we're beyond the era of extremely constrained embedded environments, even for space hardware. Several hundred Mhz PowerPC based avionics computers with hundreds of MB of RAM seemed pretty common 15 years ago.
What would a C interpreter do that wouldn't be done better by simply uploading a new compiled binary, though? The source code is most likely less space efficient than machine code.
A 512 byte memory restriction and deploying an LLM could not be on further opposite sides of the spectrum. :D
LLM currently have fairly tight token restrictions for prompting. That said chatGPT could probably compile some C. Never tried though.