Create your own locally hosted family AI assistant
What you’re seeing in this picture is a screenshot from our “family chat”. It’s a locally hosted Matrix server, with Element clients on all the computers, phones and tablets in the family. Fully End2End encrypted of course - why should our family discussions end up with some external party?
AI · English · LLaMa · LLM · Matrix
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Corporate mandates like "return to the office" and "AI integration" are driven not by productivity or efficiency, but by financial interests tied to real estate and IT investments
“Back to the office” and the push for “AI into everything” have the same underlying cause.
AI · English · Remote Work
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The Coming Cognitive Disbelief
Both humans and large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally statistical pattern-matching systems with no inherent consciousness or "magic"
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. As can be seen from previous posts here on my blog , I spent some time quite a few years ago looking into the current state of science regarding (human) cognition, consciousness and really what it is that “we” really are. Like Sabine Hossenfelder , the unavoidable conclusion was that there’s simply nothing magical about “us”. Our actions are simply the result of the current inputs to “us” filtered, massaged and modified by the enormous neural network(s) created from all previous events.
AI · Consciousness · English · LLM
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The delta between an LLM and consciousness
With Facebook’s release of LLaMa , and the subsequent work done with its models by the open community , it’s now possible to run a state of the art “GPT-3 class” LLM on regular consumer hardware. The 13B model, quantized to 4-bit, runs fine on a GPU with ~9GB free VRAM.
AGI · AI · English · LLM · Transhumanism
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(No, this is not about Musk supporting a racist, homophobic, bigoted authoritarian - others will write endlessly about that today)
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