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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: 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"