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Nope. Only those that try to compete in the domains that AI will grind to dust (most intellectual work).

AI can't be a good father, mother, son, daughter, sister, or brother. It cannot make the world a better place of its own volition, since it has no will.

It will be eventually wielded to subjugate even more people in a prison of the mind.

Sure, you won't probably fall into that trap, but I might, so I will avoid it and focus on things that only I can do in the here and now, as that is what I was created to do.
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BITKARROT 5d ago

as someone who has struggled to stop people from asking the most mundane obnoxious tech questions, I can now point them at the AI. Also, I'm having the time time of my life. it feels like driving a ferrari to build things i've wanted to build but didn't because it always took too much time, 3 weeks now can be done in 1.5 hrs. That means more fun play time with family and friends.

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The Beave 5d ago

Until you're locked in and then they start pricing you out like an addict.

Because that's what is going to be happening soon since the infinite money circle jerk is going to crash in the not so distant future.

Enjoy it while you can, for sure.

I'll plod along. I'm good at that.

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BITKARROT 4d ago

there's this thing called "running your own open source Ai models on your own hardware"

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cloud fodder 4d ago

costs more than a decent used car, to run a useless LLM rn, that maxes out a standard household circuit.

so I guess we will need more circuit

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AWittyUser 4d ago

And then there are the people who cry about requiring h100s to run good LLMs locally. And then you look at what they’re doing, and see fp32 model files.

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BITKARROT 4d ago

what's the cost of used car anyway?

my take is that the free models get better and the gap closes within the next 12 months so that its doable

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cloud fodder 4d ago

7k per 'thread' i was thinking is about what a 32 gig ram. but if you look at tinygrad/tinybox. you may decide we are talking 10k+ with power to support it

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BITKARROT 4d ago

the software tricks are gonna bring down the HW reqs, like real fast

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The Beave 4d ago

I'm ignorant. I haven't heard this.

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The Beave 4d ago

I don't pay more than 5k.

GPU and RAM can easily get eaten up with that.

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The Beave 4d ago

Tried that for a bit before.

Utterly terrible on less than top-tier hardware, which I have neither the budget or desire to acquire.

I'm not going to be locked into a system of perpetual FOMO.

I'm not missing out. Besides, I'm dead weight when it comes to this sort of stuff. Useful for ballast and that's about it.

Things that might change my opinion: Open-source models that I can train on my own dataset. (Which would be mostly books I've read that aren't trash.) Effective enough models for simple, local useful things like voice recognition to be able to be lazy about home automation stuff.

Basically, no black box stuff. No crazy hardware needed to carry on a better than 1960s robot level tasks (actually difficult).

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BITKARROT 4d ago

also I am no longer a free answering machine. this feels good.