Is there any ML/AI algo/language/system that can be used with CPU?

[sonic olive]

I want to start learning AI but my laptop is over 12 years old and rather weak in the GPU department. Is there any project I can use that focuses on CPU instead?

Sorry if I'm not using the correct terminology.

[warped oar]

I think you can start with just using Google Colab, which provides free cpu and gpu without hurting your laptop

[sonic olive]

I'll take a look at that later.

Is there nothing I can use locally?

[sonic olive]

Also, thank you for the suggestion.

[warped oar]

Since your laptop is 12 years old, I think there's a lot more risks running locally, especially if you try those larger deep learning models. You can still run classical ML, but running deep learning likely will fry your laptop. There's very little resources when it comes to CPU implementations, so little that translating these larger deep learning models became a business for Neural Magic: https://neuralmagic.com/

There are CPU native implementations such as fasttext that can do a text classification or unsupervised learning, or in general you don't need GPU to run spacy for small NLP tasks

But yeah, at the end of the day, I'd recommend going Colab because of your condition