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Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called "llama.cpp" that can run Meta's new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run LLaMA on Windows as well. Then someone showed it running on a Pixel 6 phone, and next came a Raspberry Pi (albeit running very slowly).
If this keeps up, we may be looking at a pocket-sized ChatGPT competitor before we know it.
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For example, here's a list of notable LLaMA-related events based on a timeline Willison laid out in a Hacker News comment:
- February 24, 2023: Meta AI announces LLaMA.
- March 2, 2023: Someone leaks the LLaMA models via BitTorrent.
- March 10, 2023: Georgi Gerganov creates llama.cpp, which can run on an M1 Mac.
- March 11, 2023: Artem Andreenko runs LLaMA 7B (slowly) on a Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB RAM, 10 sec/token.
- March 12, 2023: LLaMA 7B running on NPX, a node.js execution tool.
- March 13, 2023: Someone gets llama.cpp running on a Pixel 6 phone, also very slowly.
- March 13, 2023, 2023: Stanford releases Alpaca 7B, an instruction-tuned version of LLaMA 7B that "behaves similarly to OpenAI's "text-davinci-003" but runs on much less powerful hardware.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Snotnose on Thursday March 16 2023, @08:52PM (6 children)
Doesn't mean it would be a pleasant experience, but I could.
A couple months ago I spent a couple quality hours with ChatGPT while imbibing. Oops, I meant imbibing whilst dorking with ChatGPT cuz I was too drunk to watch The Kardashians. My conclusion? ChatGPT is a very accomplished bullshit generator. Pretty much everything I asked it gave results straight from Wikipedia, with a dash of right/left wing bullshit tossed in to make me think it was reinforcing my beliefs when, in fact, I was drunkenly playing the part of Lou Dobbs or Al Sharpton when I asked my last question.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2023, @09:07PM
> The funnel will be held tomato.
This. Also Auto-Complete (from another SN link, forgot to where), texting the baby sitter:
Can you sit on my face.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Friday March 17 2023, @11:54AM
Man: I'd HAVE to be drunk to watch The Kardashians!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Friday March 17 2023, @02:02PM (3 children)
I posit that running Doom on a more recent Raspberry Pi could be a very pleasant experience. At least as far as running and playing Doom like it was meant to be played. The Raspberry Pi is a very capable little computer and just because it doesn't run fast, doesn't mean it's not good. A raspberry pi doesn't need to boot in 3 seconds, finish loading the OS/bloatware in 10 seconds more, and load Doom in 5 seconds. We're very spoiled with modern instant gratification. The Raspberry Pi loads pretty quickly and something like DOSBox is likely what you want to run ancient games like Doom on modern hardware anyway.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Friday March 17 2023, @02:04PM (2 children)
Also, a lot of older windows programs just don't work on modern versions of Windows. In fact the likes of Civilization II is extremely hard to actually get to "mostly function" on a modern Windows system. Whereas, if you load the game in WINE on a Linux computer, you can make it work like it was meant to be played. Complete with loading the music and wonder videos from a CD.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 18 2023, @02:37AM (1 child)
Really? Is it extremely hard for you realize you can run Linux in a VM on Windows? 🤣
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday March 20 2023, @06:10PM
WINE is the necessary ingredient. In the event that you can get WINE to work on Windows, natively or in a VM on a Linux guest, sure.
The extremely hard comment was looking for a trust-worthy hacked EXE or other hacky way of getting it to run on a modern computer (probably illegal, but the copyright holder seem to be ignoring that) to run Civ2 natively on Windows 10 (for example). First of all, the original uses 16-bit architecture and second of all, even after getting it to "mostly function" there were bits that just didn't work right. Whereas, with Linux and WINE, it was a breeze. Yes, setting up Linux in a VM isn't terribly difficult and could be a way to do it. Considering I setup the thing for my Dad who knows nothing about computers. I wouldn't want to support Windws + VM + Linux + game. Linux + Game == Good, especially since I supplied the computer anyway.
Sad thing is that after I got CivII running perfect and CivIV running perfect, he tried CivII and decided that nostalgia had been the driving force behind wanting 2 vs 4. So he still pretty much exclusively plays Civ IV. I did get him one of the newer Civ games, I think Civ V, but he was much happier with Civ IV. Personally, I think CivIV is the sweet-spot of the genre. Lots of modern conveniences, with fairly quick turns. Civ V and Civ VI turns just take way too long. When I hit pass, the computer should be able to take their turn(s) very quickly. Not a 10-30 second pause, every time you hit end turn at the very beginning of a game. Which would only get worse once they actually have a bunch of units, cities, etc. Late game with lots of units, cities, etc. always take more time, but the Computer's Turns shouldn't take forever.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"