Congratulations, Gabe!
“I just downloaded LLaMA from Huggingface to play with it some in hopes to pull my Alexas off of Amazon and have them point to my own AI bot”That's amazing! College is stupid expensive and the kids can't usually cut it on their own with a classload. Tell him congrats! That's definitely the field you want to get in to, and plug it into robots.
AI stuff is crazy. I just downloaded LLaMA from Huggingface to play with it some in hopes to pull my Alexas off of Amazon and have them point to my own AI bot.