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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

There's a lot of explaining to do for Meta, OpenAI, Claude and Google gemini to justify overpaying for their models now that there's l a literal open source model that can do the basics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm testing right now vscode+continue+ollama+gwen2.5-coder. With a simple GPU it's already OK.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You still need an expensive hardware to run it. Unless myceliumwebserver project will start

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Correct. But what's more expensive a single computing instance that's local or cloud based credit eating SAS AI that does not produce significantly better results?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes GPT4All of you want to try for yourself without coding know how.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The cost is a function of running an LLM at scale. You can run small models on consumer hardware, but the real contenders are using massive amounts of memory and compute on GPU arrays (plus electricity and water for cooling).

ChatGPT is reportedly losing money on their $200/mo pro subscription plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The same could be said for when Meta "open sourced" their models. Someone has to do the training, or else these models wouldn't exist in the first place.