Usefullness of AI Cataloging

[gcorbin]

I am ready to upgrade my quite old laptop to a new one with a lot more power. I am not a gamer so don’t need a fancy graphics card but I am intrigued by the possibilities of using OpenAI locally for PhotoSupreme cataloging. The majority of my photos are of nature, particularly insects, spiders, birds and flowers and it would be wonderful if AI could assist with the identification of the organisms in my photos. I am wondering if either OpenAI or Ollama could manage the identifications. (I prefer to do things locally but will use the cloud if I need to.) In particular, should I

• add a graphics card like a 16G RTX 5080 to the new laptop to run Ollama Gemma 3 locally

• save my money and use it for an OpenAI subscription

• save my money and just identify manually

Does anyone have any experience with identifying things like insects with either OpenAI or Ollama and can share their thoughts on the usefulness of using either?

[RobiWan]

• add a graphics card like a 16G RTX 5080 to the new laptop to run Ollama Gemma 3 locally

PSU with AI is one part, but which software you are using to edit your photos. Many/ (most) of them I know needs fast and powerful GPU. Your selected GPU is good chose in such case.
Not often, but when I want to use AI in PSU, I use OpenAI in the Cloud