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[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 11 months ago

The bait and switch classic.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

I'm clutching my pearls as I type this.

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So the development of inorganic intelligence, considered by many as an inflection point in human civilisation is to be handed to business graduates who are historically proven to be capable of any level of atrocity in the name of corporate greed. America, fuck yeah.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

~~America~~ Greed, fuck yeah.

Don't fool yourself. The USA lost the exclusivity deal on unchecked corpo greed a long time ago. This is a global issue now.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the American tag was just a throwaway line, greed unchecked, insane and self-harming has always been with us. We let it sit with us around our camp fires like wolves but unlike wolves we never tamed it.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Actually corporations themselves are 99% of what people fear about AGI already in their inhuman decisionmaking to the detriment of humanity.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago
[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No problem, after they release all the data collected under the excuse of public good and progress.

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[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Booooooooooo!

Anyway: ill just keep using alpaca to run llms locally

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

is there an easy way to do this that doesn't require me to understand how github works?

[–] Dalraz@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I recommend Ollama, its easy to setup and the cli can download and run llms. With some more techsavviness you can get openwebui as a nice ui.

https://ollama.com/ https://openwebui.com/

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

For someone who doesn't understand GitHub, the CLI might be a bit much, FWIW.

It would be nice if there were a GUI, download-and-run single click app with a webui built in.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

in that case you're looking for llamafiles. single file, llm included, starts into a web gui. the only limitation is that windows limits the size of executable files to 4GB so on that OS you're limited to smaller models.

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[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Alpaca for linux is easy to use. You just install the flatpak and the llm of your choice. You dont need to know how to use github. (It might have a windows version but im not sure)

[–] llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think that in that case, YouTube is your friend. There are a few pretty straight forward videos that can help you out; if you're serious about it you're going have to, eventually, become familiar with it.

[–] BB84@mander.xyz 11 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Stop depending on these proprietary LLMs. Go to !localllama@sh.itjust.works.

There are open-source LLMs you can run on your own computer if you have a powerful GPU. Models like OLMo and Falcon are made by true non-profits and universities, and they reach GPT-3.5 level of capability.

There are also open-weight models that you can run locally and fine-tune to your liking (although these don’t have open-source training data or code). The best of these (Alibaba’s Qwen, Meta’s llama, Mistral, Deepseek, etc.) match and sometimes exceed GPT 4o capabilities.

[–] llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

The issue with that method, as you've noted, is that it prevents people with less powerful computers from running local LLMs. There are a few models that would be able to run on an underpowered machine, such as TinyLlama; but most users want a model that can do a plethora of tasks efficiently like ChatGPT can, I daresay. For people who have such hardware limitations, I believe the only option is relying on models that can be accessed online.

For that, I would recommend Mistral's Mixtral models (https://chat.mistral.ai/) and the surfeit of models available on Poe AI's platform (https://poe.com/). Particularly, I use Poe for interacting with the surprising diversity of Llama models they have available on the website.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are open-source LLMs you can run on your own computer if you have a powerful GPU.

What defines powerful? What if you don't have the necessary hardware?

[–] llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

You can check Hugging Face's website for specific requirements. I will warn you that lot of home machines don't fit the minimum requirements for a lot of models available there. There is TinyLlama and it can run on most underpowered machines, but its functionalities are very limited and it would lack a lot as an everyday AI Chatbot. You can check my other comment too for other options.

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought they were a for-profit company all this time.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much non-profit in name only. Some shady hybrid model.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OpenAI sure seems like a case study in how to grift everyone by masquerading as a non profit whilst actually enriching yourself and your shareholders, causing a whole new class of societal problems in the process.

Meh. I don't think anyone that matters was really fooled.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Open to All Income.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago
[–] arararagi@ani.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Well, apart from the people like me who thought they had always been one because they acted exactly like one.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was never another outcome.

Capitalism breeds one thing, and it certainly isn't innovation, and it most definitely isnt not-for-profit innovation.

[–] lig@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

They've been acting like that from the start 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They should also change their name to ClosedAI while they're at it.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

No kidding. 🙀

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Hahaha. April 1st is early this year.
They are never going to make enough money by selling licenses and subscriptions for the cost of their current models (smarter people than me have made good estimates), let alone the future ones. Those future models are at a much worse performance-cost ratio. Ads will at best bring in about 1 usd per user per month (estimated by Facebook revenue and number of users) - double or triple it just for lolz, and they would still be losing money.
So… how will this be pulled off? Only wrong answers!

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have a partnership with Microsoft and ship Windows 12 as the new "AI only" OS. Every command must go through ChatGPT to work. Then push updates to older Win11 OS to make them unusable.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

From what I've heard, they don't need to push updates to achieve that

[–] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How fast are they burning money right now?

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Based on their funding rounds, $10 billion lasts about 18 months.

So about $555 million per month.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Did Elon not block this?

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

'subtle' product recommendations

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